Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Sovereignty" in English language version.
there is no law without a sovereign Seydel.
Claims to supreme authority have long been encoded in Sovereignty as symbolic form.
The secessionists claimed that according to the Constitution every state had the right to leave the Union. Lincoln claimed that they did not have that right.
sovereignty [...] Supreme authority in a state.
In any state sovereignty is vested in the institution, person, or body having the ultimate authority to impose law on everyone else in the state and the power to alter any pre-existing law.
The secessionists claimed that according to the Constitution every state had the right to leave the Union. Lincoln claimed that they did not have that right.