Here, we see the propagandist nolu coward. Who is John Remington Graham? He is a radical lawyer who is known as a "righteous northerner" by the Southern League. Graham is known, recently, for his support of secession in Quebec and for losing an election for the Supreme Court in Minnesota, in which he had only established residency for about 1 month after returning from the Socialist Mecca of Canada. I will let the readers decide for themselves if the quoted passage is "scholarly" or not.
capitan still hasn't responded to my query.
Unlike your most recent diarrhea dump, it is properly sourced.
It is, of course, capitan_kerryfugio sources who regale us with such brain droppings as this:
In the American context, sovereignty often seems to function as an almost metaphysical concept -- some secret essence of legal potency that cannot be detected directly, but only as a kind of normative aura. One hotly debated question, for example, is whether the populations of the various states existed (or still exist) as separate entities acting together as a conglomeration, or rather as a single entity acting through the agency of multiple subgroups. This is reminiscent of medieval disputes about the nature of the Trinity. It is not in any real sense a question of fact or even one of law.
SOURCE: Lincoln's Constitution, Daniel Farber, 2003, p. 29
It is reported than one can find a reasonably priced "normative aura detector" on eBay.