The Constitutionality of Federal Gun Control Laws
by Diane Rufino On January 16, 2013, President Obama signed 23 Executive Orders which he claimed are aimed at reducing gun violence. Now begins the initiative to bring his comprehensive gun...
View ArticleNullify Now! Coming to Raleigh, NC
by Diane Rufino The NC Tenth Amendment Center is organizing a Nullify Now! Rally in Raleigh this fall. Nullify Now! is a national tour, sponsored by the Tenth Amendment Center and Foundation...
View ArticleNULLIFICATION: The Truths and the Fallacies
by Diane Rufino PART I: Nullification is the Rightful Remedy to Limit the Federal Government to its Constitutional Objects Nullification is the theory that says that actions of the federal government...
View ArticleWhat it Means to be Sovereign
by Diane Rufino Government in the United States includes the understanding of three terms: Self-government, sovereignty, and social compact. Sovereignty is the inherent and independent right to do all...
View ArticleNullification: Comments to a Harsh Critic
by Diane Rufino I wrote an article in support of Nullification (“Limit Federal Spending through Nullification and State Escrow Accounts”). A man responded with this comment: “You propose a...
View ArticleNullification vs. Article V Constitutional Convention: Where is the Honest...
by Diane Rufino, January 5, 2014 When the original 13 states came together to discuss the possibility of establishing a confederacy, at the urging of Benjamin Franklin (“Join or Die”),...
View ArticleA Government That Wants to Control Us, Not Represent Us
by Diane Rufino George S. Liberty recently wrote a rant about government on his blogsite after he watched a news clip about Jonathan Gruber, the controversial architect of Obamacare. His theme was...
View ArticleNULLIFICATION: The Power to Right Constitutional Wrongs
by Diane Rufino, July 9, 2015 THOMAS JEFFERSON wondered how the country would respond in the case its government passed a law that was clearly unconstitutional. As Secretary of State under our...
View ArticleObama Trashes the Constitution and No One Says a Damn Thing!
‘ The history of the federal government is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over the States and the...
View ArticleDesperately Seeking Security – For Our Second Amendment
by Diane Rufino, July 20, 2016 To those who are serious about preventing the federal government from coming after our Second Amendment rights, please read and take note….. If you really want to...
View ArticleSAVE THE REPUBLIC! Rethinking the American Union of States for the...
by Diane Rufino (citing Donald Livingston in his book Rethinking the American Union for the Twenty-First Century), July 26, 2016 The purpose of this article is three-fold: First, I want to be...
View ArticleELECTION 2016: Exercise Your Right to Protest
by Diane Rufino, October 27, 2016 Donald Trump should appeal to all those who identify as independent and who wish to break from the strict, disinterested, controlling 2-party system. All those who...
View ArticleWhat 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,...
View ArticleThe IRS Scandal: A Case Study in Government Tyranny
by Diane Rufino, April 19, 2017 “The Obama administration and its fronts in the Senate accomplished what Richard Nixon wasn’t able to accomplish, which was the suppression of an entire movement...
View Article2017 Independence Day Reflection
by Diane Rufino, July 4, 2017 “My country, ‘tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died; Land of the Pilgrims’ pride, from ev’ry mountainside, Let freedom ring!”...
View ArticleA Government of the People, By the People, For the People….. How it Really...
by Diane Rufino, September 20, 2017 Thomas Jefferson articulated the absolute right of a state to secede from the Union. He did so in 1798, in 1799, in 1816, and up until his death in...
View ArticleNULLIFICATION (in 500 words)
by Diane Rufino, Oct. 30, 2017 Imagine Hillary Clinton had won the 2016 presidential election and enough democrats won so that she enjoys a friendly Congress. And imagine she made good...
View ArticleThe English Roots of American Liberty
by DIane Rufino, January 20, 2018 From the Declaration and Resolves (petition to King Charles listing the colonies’ grievances against the King and Parliament), the Declaration of Independence, to the...
View ArticleINTERPOSITION: The Duty to Say “NO!”
by Diane Rufino, January 25, 2018 The word Interposition means “to place between; cause to intervene.” In the context of the Constitution and the system of government it has established in this...
View ArticleOur Modern-Day Interposer, Judge Roy Moore
by Diane Rufino, January 25, 2018 I just wrote an article explaining the doctrine of Interposition and how vital a remedy it is against federal tyranny. (“Interposition: The Duty to Say “NO!”). In...
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