The lessons of the "day after" in Egypt, amidst the ongoing confrontation of the squares and the battle of the slogans, are many.
First, the crisis is defined by some as one between constitutional legitimacy and popular/revolutionary legitimacy. The Morsi supporters argue that he is the first president who came to power via the ballot. Dislodging him therefore amounts to a coup d’etat, regardless of how it is done. Nevertheless, the situation is not as simple as that. A newborn regime, emanating out of a revolution, needs to forge a large consensus on the founding elements and general principles of the new constitution, the basic law of the nation.
