The current constitutional law places the president of the republic in an embarrassing situation.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
This is a case if the President is permitted to be above the law, then we no longer have a republic.
If the president is allowed to suspend constitutional rights on his own personal whims, our free republic has effectively ceased to exist.
In my day, the president ruled with authority before the law, but now all that is lost.
Lots of countries have great constitutions, but their leaders have a practice of ignoring the rules whenever they feel like it.
The very idea of the law in a constitutional republic involves the requisite that it be a rule, a guide, uniform, fixed and equal, for all, till changed by the same high political power which made it. This is what entitles it to its sovereign weight.
I would like to tell you as the president of the republic, I am not embarrassed to listen to the Youth of my country and to respond to them.
A president who breaks the law is a threat to the very structure of our government.
There is a higher law than the Constitution.
By this act the president alone is empowered to make the law, to fix in his mind what acts, words, what thoughts or looks, shall constitute such a crime.
When a president makes up law as he goes, no one knows what the law is anymore.