It’s been around three weeks since Egypt’s Committee of 50 (C50), the country’s new constitutional assembly, began its work on amending the 2012 constitution, which has been suspended since the overthrow of Mohammed Morsi on July 3. The committee has largely been acting as a full constituent assembly, attempting to circumvent its essentially advisory role as is set by the current constitutional declaration.
The declaration gave the actual final power to amend the constitution to a committee of 10 jurists and constitutional law experts — all nominated by the educational institutions and legal bodies they represent — while the C50 was basically tasked with being a society-representing entity that provides opinion.