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Max Winthrop, a member of the Law Society's Employment Law Committee, said: "I'd normally expect the spinal point on the higher grading to be maintained when a lower graded post was offered."

As it evolved in the 19th century, this ideology held that the country was a promised land, the “city upon a hill” that Puritan leader John Winthrop of Massachusetts spoke of.

Chapin — with lawyer and future colonial governor John Winthrop, savvy business entrepreneur William Pynchon and other British-born Puritans — left England in the 1620s as part of the Great Migration.

Adding irony to that irony, when Stefanik was a Harvard undergraduate from 2002 to 2006, she lived in the college's Winthrop House, named for John Winthrop, first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, who oversaw its public celebration of Puritans' genocidal assaults on the indigenous Pequot people.

Other governors who have done what Brown and Ryan did, and what Biden should do, include Lee Cruce, governor of Oklahoma from 1911–1915, Winthrop Rockefeller, governor of Arkansas from 1966–1970, and Tony Anaya, governor of New Mexico from 1982–1986.