Can an elected president declare a revolutionary government?

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To answer the foregoing question, one has to dissect the impersonality of an elected president. An elected president was enthroned to power, by the majority of the constituency, under the rules and laws governing the electoral process. The powers bestowed upon an elected president, by the majority of the voting population is subject to the fulfillment of certain duties and obligations defined in the related laws, and by the constitution itself. The latter is the document, that manifest the agreement between the electorate and the elect. Upon being sworn into office, the elected president commits himself to fulfill the mandate, enshrined in the constitution and the appropriate laws and binds himself to uphold and enforce the same. It is under the foregoing conditions that his authority achieves validity. Such authority is in effect ministerial, and incumbent upon his position. It is an authority delegated by the people, limited by the terms and conditions inherent within the charter. Any action/s or inaction by an elected president, that does not conform to the tenets of the charter, that embodies his direct covenant with the people, is an exercise beyond his delegated power, and at the onset, will and should constitute an illegal act. Declaring a revolutionary government, therefore, is an exercise that violates his stipulation with the people, and would amount to the direct betrayal of the people's confidence and trust. It will set the ground for impeachment due to culpable violation of the constitution, and its enabling laws. Necessarily, members of the country's security forces, that would support and execute such illegal act may likewise be committing an illegal act themselves. To reiterate, an elected president by his sole hand, may not amend the constitution, so much so suspend it, and eventually replace it, by invoking or declaring a revolutionary government. A revolutionary government declared in the manner cited, has no legal and factual basis. Because a revolutionary government is borne out of a revolution, not by an individual, but by the people themselves, to overthrow a failed leadership or a self-defeating system of government. Since the constitution was authored by the people through their duly. appointed and elected representatives, only the people en masse, has the direct authority and direct power to initiate a change, by means they deem necessary, including that of staging a revolution, and the consequent establishment of a revolutionary government. In the absence of a popular revolt, a revolutionary government so declared may not exist as an instrument to dispense power, since only the former, can give birth to the latter.

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