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have constitutional importance. While Éamon de Valera described his intentions for the office as being "mainly to guard the Constitution", such a description is deprecated by some academics, with the leading constitutional text noting "the Constitution is extremely sparing in its attribution of any independent functions to the office at all". Be that as it may, both the Office of the President and the wider legal community in Ireland recognise the president as

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