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Who Decides | The People or the Government?
| Sometime around 1843, a young man named Mellen Chamberlain interviewed Levi Preston, an aging veteran of the American Revolutionary War. Then ninety-one years old, Preston had been in his early twenties in 1775 when British soldiers marched out of Boston to search for arms and rebels in nearby Concord, Massachusetts. “What made you go to the Concord Fight?” Chamberlain wanted to know. “Young man,” replied Preston, “what we meant in going for those Redcoats was this: we had always governed ourselves and we always meant to.” For Levi Preston, it was just that simple. |
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