Long before the U.S. Supreme Court's majority declared that "words no longer have meaning," to quote the recent dissenting opinion in King v. Burwell, libertarian scholar
Published: Thursday, July 23rd, 2015 @ 3:05 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Timeline of Events Leading to the Revolutionary War and beyond to its conclusion, and through the anti-climatic birthing pains.
Published: Saturday, July 4th, 2015 @ 3:54 am
By: Diane Rufino
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The federal government is steadily becoming more antagonistic and repugnant to the People.
Published: Tuesday, December 2nd, 2014 @ 9:13 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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When the original 13 states came together to discuss the possibility of establishing a confederacy, at the urging of Benjamin Franklin ("Join or Die"), they did so with a great deal of hope, but also a great deal of trepidation.
Published: Sunday, February 16th, 2014 @ 6:16 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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Nullification is the theory that says that actions of the federal government that are passed, imposed, or exercised in excess or abuse of the express authority granted in the Constitution are not enforceable.
Published: Sunday, July 28th, 2013 @ 8:52 am
By: Diane Rufino
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On January 16, 2013, President Obama signed 23 Executive Orders which he claimed are aimed at reducing gun violence.
Published: Thursday, March 7th, 2013 @ 12:07 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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But I have serious problems in his (Abraham Lincoln) legal and Constitutional justifications for the Civil War.
Published: Monday, November 19th, 2012 @ 3:46 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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It is easy to see how our Founder's were influenced by John Locke when designing our government and drafting our founding documents.
Published: Sunday, November 18th, 2012 @ 1:44 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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Last year, I taught classes on the Constitution, Our Founding Fathers, Our Founding Principles, The Federal Court System, The Supreme Court, and Judicial Activism.
Published: Saturday, November 17th, 2012 @ 6:53 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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Let us not be so cavalier with the system that our Founders crafted for us, the one secured by the blood of over a million Americans, and the one that the rest of the world looks to.
Published: Friday, November 9th, 2012 @ 6:25 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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When a curious woman approached Benjamin Franklin as he was leaving the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in September 1787 and asked him what kind of government the delegates had given the people, he replied: "...A Republic, Ma'am, if you can keep it."
Published: Tuesday, November 6th, 2012 @ 10:05 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Jefferson believed it was up to the States, the parties who drafted and ratified the Constitution and thus created the federal government to stand up to the government when it exceeds constitutional bounds.
Published: Monday, July 16th, 2012 @ 6:05 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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What a sad day when the Supreme Court loses sight of what the Constitution's purpose is to protect the rights of individuals, and not to take them away.
Published: Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012 @ 4:07 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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"As we combat terrorism, we must not sacrifice the American values we are fighting to protect. In recent years, we've seen an Administration put forward a false choice between the liberties we cherish and the security we demand."
Published: Saturday, June 16th, 2012 @ 10:37 pm
By: Jeff Lewis
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It is a good thing the doctrines of nullification and interposition are being revived. Perhaps it's the urgency of the constitutional crisis we face that has made the doctrines so appealing and sensible.
Published: Sunday, June 10th, 2012 @ 5:08 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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Our Founders made sure they provided for the proper avenues to counter a government that evinces such a design and even provided for the right to abolish that government.
Published: Saturday, June 2nd, 2012 @ 10:08 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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"One day, I walked into an operating room, to just be an observant, which we would do generally, as a medical resident. It was the 1960's and abortion was still legal.
Published: Sunday, February 19th, 2012 @ 10:18 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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What does the word "Secession" mean?
Published: Saturday, September 10th, 2011 @ 10:26 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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WHEN in the Course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political Bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the Earth.
Published: Monday, July 4th, 2011 @ 8:16 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Our President has announced worldwide that the United States is the largest Muslim nation. We are at the verge of building a magnificent mosque at Ground Zero as a symbol of Islam's conquest.
Published: Friday, February 25th, 2011 @ 10:07 am
By: Diane Rufino
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As we initiate this ongoing series, this category on what made this a once great nation, we examine our nation's first document.
Published: Friday, September 3rd, 2010 @ 9:00 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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