This analysis is the lawyer's view of sovereignty. A lawyer is not concerned with the content of law,that is, its welfare content or the value component of law. He is only concerned with the legal source from which it emanates. According to Ritchie, "The legal sovereign is the lawyer,s sovereign qua lawyer,the sovereign beyond which lawyers and courts refuse to look." But behind the legal sovereign there is another power which is unknown to law. It is the political sovereign, unorganised and incapable of expressing the will of the state in the form of legal command, but to
whom the legal sovereign must ultimately bow.