This is a case if the President is permitted to be above the law, then we no longer have a republic.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If the president is allowed to suspend constitutional rights on his own personal whims, our free republic has effectively ceased to exist.
The current constitutional law places the president of the republic in an embarrassing situation.
Now one of two things is true: Either a republic is a desirable form of government, or else it is not.
But the Republic has its rules and it must not tolerate any abuse of them.
A republic - if you can keep it - is about limitation, and for good reason, because we are mortal and our actions are imperfect.
There is a higher law than the Constitution.
The allegiance of the citizen, in the only sense in which the word can be tolerated in a republic, is due to the law. What idea other men may have of a law higher than the supreme law, I know not. Like the notion of the Stoics concerning Fate, it is perfectly incomprehensible.
In my day, the president ruled with authority before the law, but now all that is lost.
When a president makes up law as he goes, no one knows what the law is anymore.
Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men.
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