Commentary
This April is the 250th anniversary of the famous shots fired at Concord, Massachusetts, that set off the American Revolution. Captain Levi Preston, who fought there, later captured the principles at stake during an interview decades later in 1843. When pressed on various grievances, he replied: “Young man, what we meant in going for those redcoats was this: We had governed ourselves, and we always meant to. They didn’t mean we should.”