Gary Palmer and Harold See: Another strategy for fighting the health care reform law

  Health care reform was rammed through Congress. What should we do?

  In 1842, Mellen Chamberlain interviewed 91-year-old Levi Preston, who had fought the British at Concord Bridge on April 19, 1775. Chamberlain asked if he fought because of the Stamp Act. Preston said no. The tea tax? He never drank it. How about the great treatises of the time? He never read them. He said he spent his time reading the Bible, Watt’s Psalms and Hymns and the Almanac.

  Why then had Preston fought at Concord? “Young man, what we meant in going for those red coats was this: we always had governed ourselves, and we always meant to. They didn’t mean we should.”

  Our Constitution, recognizing that government tends to accumulate power, provides checks and balances. Federalism is the check of the states on the federal government.