Since there are in these States no local functionaries bound by constitutional oaths, there are, in fact, no constitutional functionaries; and as the State Government is necessarily composed of such functionaries, there can be no State Government.
Sumner argues that the absence of constitutional functionaries means there can be no legitimate state government.
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