Massachusetts and America

If Scott Brown wins the race for the U.S. Senate seat from Massachusetts, Massachusetts and New England will join the trends that are taking hold in the rest of America. If Martha Coakley wins, Massachusetts and New England will be marginalized.

And Coakley’s presence in the Senate will further inflame the anti-tax movement that started here in Concord, N.H., less than a year ago when Dan Itse, a state representative from Fremont, resurrected the 1798 Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison and made the audacious claim that the states had the sovereign right to oppose federal legislation that went beyond its prescribed constitutional fences.

The future rises now in the heartland. If Coakley wins, Massachusetts will become a pariah state in a free republic.

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