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Tag Archives: Founding Fathers
America, The Land That I Love
by Diane Rufino, July 11, 2022 I’m a long-time activist. I started a Tea Party group in 2009 in my area of North Carolina and have been running it ever since. I believe in the Tea Party movement because it … Continue reading
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Tagged Bill of Rights, Constitution, Constitutional Convention, Declaration of Independence, Diane Rufino, founding documents, Founding Fathers, founding principles, freedom, George Washington, individual liberty, individual sovereighty, John Adams, Liberty, Morality, Philadelphia convention, Religion, Ronald Reagan, self-government, Thomas Jefferson, We the People
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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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A RE-DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
by Diane Rufino, January 22, 2021 This article is dedicated to our great Founding Fathers – men who had the courage, the foresight, and the wisdom to secure the freedom that I exercise and enjoy every single day. PURPOSE: The … Continue reading
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Tagged Constitution, Declaration of Independence, Diane Rufino, founding documents, Founding Fathers, government tyranny, human rights, natural rights, Re-Declaration of Independence, rights of the people, the people's government, the right to abolish a tyrannical government, Thomas Jefferson, tyranny, unconstitutional agencies, unconstitutional federal agencies, US constitution
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Cicero Warned About the Evils of an Ambitious Government
by Diane Rufino, July 15, 2018 “When a government becomes powerful, it is a usurper which takes bread from innocent mouths and deprives honorable men of their substance for votes with which to perpetuate itself.” — Marcus Tullius … Continue reading
What Our Founding Generation Would Have Said About Obamacare
by Diane Rufino, February 25, 2017 Although we are on the verge of having President Obama’s signature piece of legislation, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (aka, “Obamacare”) repealed and replaced, … Continue reading
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Tagged Bill of Rights, Boston tea party, Diane Rufino, Donald Trump, Founding Fathers, founding generation, freedom, government compulsion, healthcare, John Stuart Mill, Liberty, no taxation without representation, Obama, Obamacare, repeal and replace, Sons of Liberty, taxation, tea act, Tea Party, tea tax, the Affordable Care Act, Trump, tyranny, US constitution
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RESOLUTION TO CHALLENGE OBAMACARE AS AN ABUSE OF FEDERAL POWER
by Diane Rufino, Deputy Director of the NC Tenth Amendment Center and Resolutions Chair of the Pitt County GOP. The following resolution will be presented at the 2014 Pitt County GOP Convention on March 8. RESOLUTION TO OPPOSE THE AFFORDABLE … Continue reading
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Tagged 10th Amendment, 13th amendment, 14th amendment, 9th amendment, abuse, abuse of power, ACA, Affordable Care Act, Article I, Bill of Rights, Chief Justice Roberts, commerce clause, Congress, Constitution, death panel, Declaration of Independence, Diane Rufino, equal protection, Federalist No. 45, Founding Fathers, government healthcare, healthcare insurance, healthcare reform, independent payment advisory board, Independent Payment Advisory Panel, Individual Mandate, IPAB, James Madison, Liberty, Life, limited government, National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius, national healthcare, natural rights, ninth amendment, Obamacare, penalty, preamble, Pursuit of Happiness, redistribution of wealth, resolution, Supreme Court, takings, tax, taxing power, Tenth Amendment, thirteenth amendment, Thomas Jefferson, unconstitutional, usurpation
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How a Republic Dies
by Diane Rufino, December 30, 2013 One of my all-time favorite HBO series is ROME, starring Kevin McKidd and Ray Stevenson. Borrowing on a theme similar to Forrest Gump, the series follows the journey of two … Continue reading
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Tagged Augustus Caesar, bread and circuses, Cato, Cicero, civic decay, civic duty, decline of Rome, decline of the Roman empire, Diane Rufino, Founding Fathers, HBO series Rome, Julius Caesar, Juvenal, Lucius Vorenus, Marc Antony, moral decay, Morality, Octavian, plebs, proscription, Religion, republic, roman empire, Roman republic, Rome, Titus Pullo
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Keep the Federal Government in Check with NULLIFICATION – Not Liberty Amendments
by Diane Rufino, October 10, 2013 Mark Levin, who wrote an excellent book “The Liberty Amendments” to urge states to call for an Article V Convention to propose constitutional amendments to restore the federal government back to some sort of … Continue reading
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Tagged 10th Amendment, 9th amendment, Ableman v. Booth, American Revolution, Article I, Article III, Article V, Article V convention, Bill of Rights, Brown v. Board of Education, Chief Justice John Marshall, Constitution, Cooper v. Aaron, Declaration of Independence, Diane Rufino, Dred Scott, Earl Warren, Edwin Meese III, Founding Fathers, Fugitive Slave Law, James Iredell, James Madison, Kentucky Resolutions, Liberty Amendments, limited government, Marbury v. Madison, Mark Levin, Michael Maharrey, NC Tenth Amendment Center, ninth amendment, North Carolina Tenth Amendment Center, nullification, Nullify Now, Publius Huldah, Supremacy Clause, Supreme Court, Tenth Amendment, Tenth Amendment Center, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, Thomas Woods, unconstitutional, Virginia Report of 1800, Virginia Resolutions
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Limit Federal Spending through Nullification and State Escrow Accounts
by Diane Rufino The government has no legitimate powers that were not initially granted to it under the Constitution. There is no provision anywhere, nor is there any implied right under the Declaration of Independence or … Continue reading
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Tagged 10th Amendment, Article I Section 8, Bill of Rights, Constitution, Declaration of Independence, federal budget, federal spending, fiscal crisis, Founding Fathers, interposition, limited government, nullification, preamble, sovereignty, spend, state escrow account, state sovereignty, states rights, tax, tax and spend, taxing power, Tenth Amendment, Thomas Jefferson, unconstitutional
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