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A question of democratic theory if the pro democracy groups lose. christians are only 10% of the population and will vote against the constitution but the notion that large numbers of people would simply boycott the referendum and not vote in an effort to delegitimatize the outcome shows theyre pessimistic. what it comes down to as it has in the past two years is what is the military prepared to do? its the one state institution with popular support and its got the guts. >> the military warns of...

>> youre sort of correct. muhammad morsi gets to decide what the law is. hes the executive and the legislature in egypt. so he gets to issue amendments to the temporary constitution that governs egypt, and thats what hes done so far. there are a bunch of people that are supposed to be writing a more permanent charter, but theyve been selected by an islamist dominated parliament thats now dissolved. so the liberals are feeling that the constitution writing process is not going in the direction th...