The Constitution assigns the President a special role in this sphere. The words about his duty to protect and uphold the Constitution, respect and protect civil rights and liberties and to serve the people faithfully are an important part of the text of the presidential oath, which the President takes before the people at his inauguration.
Even the Russian president failed to uphold the oath, yet in the Russian state democracy doesn’t even exist like in Ireland. Lucky the Irish do have a “nation of laws, and not of men.”
Under Article 31 of the constitution, the people in Russia can protest freely. It is the law of the land.
But the lack of president McAleese’s behaviour just goes to show that one incident can always eventually lead to another. Government is never to be completely trusted.
