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Tag Archives: 10th Amendment
SOLUTIONS FOR AMERICA: How to Preserve the Constitution and the Land of Liberty Our Founding Fathers Gave Us
by Diane Rufino, September 1, 2021 Why do I say that we need to preserve our country? Why does America need saving? As I made abundantly clear, in my article “A Re-Declaration of Independence,” which I posted on January 23 … Continue reading
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Tagged 10th Amendment, Article V convention, Civil War, Confederate States of America, Constitution, constitutional republic, convention of states, Diane Rufino, federal abuse, federal tyranny, Federalism, Founding Fathers, interposition, James Madion, Lincoln, nullification, political division, political sectarianism, runaway convention, state escrow accounts, states rights, Tenth Amendment, Thomas Jefferson, tyranny, war between the states, war to prevent southern independence, withhold federal income taxes
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WHAT IF?
by Diane Rufino, June 19, 2021 Today, June 19, Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced on Twitter that he had just signed a Resolution asserting Texas state sovereignty under the Tenth Amendment over all powers not granted to the federal government … Continue reading
IS NULLIFICATION A VIABLE OPTION TO CURB FEDERAL ABUSE?
By Diane Rufino, June 17, 2021 On June 15, I posted a question and some of my personal thoughts on the matter. I noted that our nation’s culture and politics has perhaps reached a tipping point where two competing ideologies … Continue reading
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Tagged 10th Amendment, compact law, Constitution, Diane Rufino, federal abuse, James Madison, nullification, states' rights, Tenth Amendment, The Kentucky Resolves, The Virginia Resolves, Thomas Jefferson, unconstitutional, unconstitutional laws, US constitution
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A Proposed State Tenth Amendment Resolution (Establishing a State Escrow Account to Curb Federal Spending)
by Diane Rufino, March 22, 2021 I propose the following State Tenth Amendment Resolution (“Establishing a State Escrow Account to Curb Federal Spending”), or one similar to it, for my state of North Carolina. It is based on the themes … Continue reading
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Tagged 10th Amendment, A Re-Declaration of Independence, checks and balances, Diane Rufino, federal overreach, Federalism, resolution, state escrow account, states' rights, Tenth Amendment, tenth amendment resolution, unconstitutional federal spending, unconstitutional spending
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A Proposed State Sovereignty Resolution (“A Re-Declaration of Independence”) for North Carolina
by Diane Rufino, March 15, 2021 I propose the following State Sovereignty Resolution, or one similar to it, for my state of North Carolina. It is based on the themes addressed in my article “A RE-DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE” and aimed … Continue reading
A Few Suggestions to Those Who Represent Us in the North Carolina General Assembly
by Diane Rufino, February 1, 2021 Government is best and most responsive to the individual when it is closest to them. We’re talking about the local, the county, and even the state level. This is where the individual and his … Continue reading
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Tagged 10th Amendment, ammunition, checks and balances, Diane Rufino, education initiatives, election reform, Federalism, Liberty, limited government, NC Voter Integrity Project, NCGA, North Carolina, North Carolina General Assembly, nullification committees, Project Vertitas, sanctuary state for liberty, second amendment, second amendment sanctuary state, state escrow accounts, state legislature, state legislatures, state manufactured ammunition, state sovereignty bill, state sovereignty resolution, Tenth Amendment, Voter ID
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This Thing We Call “Sovereignty”
by Diane Rufino, February 20, 2019 On September 3, 1783, representatives from the American states, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and John Jay, and a representative of King George III signed the Treaty of Paris to officially end the American … Continue reading
SECESSION – Both a RIGHT and a REMEDY
by Diane Rufino, September 23, 2018 Gene Kizer Jr. is a brilliant historian. He has written an excellent account of the causes of the War of Northern Aggression (aka, the War to Prevent Southern Independence; aka, the War Between … Continue reading
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Tagged 10th Amendment, Civil War, compact theory, Constitution, contract law, Declaration of Independence, Diane Rufino, fugitive slave clause, Fugitive Slave laws, Gene Kizer Jr, Lincoln, Morrill Bill, Morrill tariff, ordinarnce of secession, protective tariffs, remedy of secession, resumption clause, right of rescission, right of secession, secession, secesssion as a reserved right, social compact, states rights, Tenth Amendment, the right of secession, Virginia's Ordinance of Secession, war between the states, War of Northern Aggression, war to prevent southern independence
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Thomas Jefferson Articulates the Remedy of NULLIFICATION in an Opinion Written to President George Washington in 1791
by Diane Rufino, September 16, 2018 In 1791, Thomas Jefferson wrote an opinion on the constitutionality of a National Bank. It is an important commentary on the meaning and intent of the US Constitution, in particular the two general clauses … Continue reading
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Tagged 10th Amendment, Alexander Hamilton, checks and balances, Chief Justice John Marshall, Constitution, constitutionality of national bank, Diane Rufino, George Washington, interposition, Jefferson, Jefferson's opinion to Washington on the constitutionality of a national bank, Kentucky Resolutions of 1799, Kentucky Resolves of 1799, McCulloch v Maryland, national bank, necessary & proper clause, necessary and proper clause, nullification, nullification is the rightful remedy, rightful remedy, Tenth Amendment, the rightful remedy, Thomas Jefferson
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The Right of Secession, as Reserved by the States in their Ratification of the US Constitution
by Diane Rufino, June 1, 2018 Louisiana voted to secede from the Union on January 26, 1861. Shortly thereafter, her senators, Judah P. Benjamin and John Slidell, resigned their positions in the US Senate. In his FAREWELL ADDRESS to the … Continue reading
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Tagged 10th Amendment, Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Article IV, Civil War, compact theory, confederacy, confederate states, Constitution, Declaratiion of Independence, Diane Rufino, Gene Kizer Jr, Judah P. Benjamin, Lincoln, Ordinance of Secession, reserved rights, resumption clause, resumption clauses, right of secession, secession, states rights, Tenth Amendment, Virginia, Virginia's Ordinance of Secession, war between the states, War of Northern Aggression, war to prevent southern independence
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