Egypt Officially Declares What Is and Isn't Important: Three things that the interim president's constitutional declaration makes clear

<p>Interim Egyptian President Adli Mansour on Monday did his fellow citizens a huge favor by <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/10/world/middleeast/egypt-elections.html" target="_blank">issuing</a> his “constitutional declaration,” which is designed to do two things. First, with the country’s 2012 constitution suspended until it can be amended, the declaration is supposed to provide a bare-bones constitutional framework. Second, it spells out the rules by which the 2012 constitution can be amended, and elections for parliament and president restored.If experience is any guide—and it should be....<a href="http://www.newrepublic.com/article/113792/egypt-president-adli-mansour-makes-constitutional-declaration#"> read more</a></p>
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