http://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2012/05/jan-brewer-extremely-disappointing/ The Tenther Grapevine Tue, 21 May 2013 22:03:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2012/05/jan-brewer-extremely-disappointing/#comment-12419 FL10thAmendment Sat, 19 May 2012 14:06:57 +0000 http://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/?p=12430#comment-12419 To Governor Brewer, and all Governors who may want to find cover in a conflicting allegiance position. We are by design a dual sovereignty Republic. I would submit to such a stance, on the surface so righteous, but upon examination, most hollow-these sentiments from Connecticut’s Oliver Ellsworth: “The U.S. are sovereign on their side of the line dividing jurisdictions—the States on the other—each ought to have the power to defend their respective jurisdictions” I would also offer as further example that Governor Brewer’s reasoning is flawed and is certainly not uncharted territory, another response from Connecticut, this time it’s legislature explaining why it refused its Militia for service in The War of 1812- “But it must not be forgotten, that the State of Connecticut is a FREE SOVEREIGN and INDEPENDENT State; that the United States are a confederacy of States; that we are a confederated and not a consolidated Republic. The Governor of this State is under a high and solemn obligation, “to maintain the lawful rights and privileges thereof, as a sovereign, free and independent State,” as he is “to support the Constitution of the United States,” and the obligation to support the latter imposes an additional obligation to support the former. The building cannot stand, if the pillars upon which it rests, are impaired or destroyed.” A Governor cannot claim allegiance to a republic of our design without allegiance first to his own state, the very creator of the general government.

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