When Mr. Morsi was sworn in as president in June 2012, his power was initially circumscribed by a simultaneous military takeover of all legislative authority.
Each region has a provincial legislative authority, called a region council, which is elected by its residents, and a provincial executive authority called a region administration, whose chairman is appointed by the president.
On Thursday, he said the parties had agreed on a new legislative authority to engage the Houthis and southern separatists in an "important step towards achieving a comprehensive political agreement that would end the current crisis".
Some jurisdictions provide an agenda initiative that allows citizens with the support of a minimum number of signatures to place a particular issue on the agenda of a government or legislative authority.
He raised an army without legislative authority, blockaded Southern ports, arrested a Baltimore militia commander without charges in an effort to intimidate Maryland against seceding and, when the Supreme Court tried to block him, suspended habeas corpus.
Under that test, a delegation of legislative authority will be upheld as long as Congress "shall lay down by legislative act an intelligible principle" to which the agency "is directed to conform".
Decision-makers in these locations were more resistant to industry opposition and less perturbed by a lack of legislative authority for adopting the policy and the potential threat of legal challenge.
It would have the additional merit of finally forging the federal-state partnership that has been missing since 1787, when the Constitution created a federal government with sufficient legislative authority to shape a nationwide economy out of separate state economies.
This amounted to an undue delegation of legislative authority, the court said in an opinion that raised the prospect that the statutory foundation of many federal agencies could be open to similar attack.
Following Thursday's decision by Egypt's Supreme Constitutional Court, which struck down the country's first freely elected Parliament in more than a half-century, the military council that assumed executive power when former President Hosni Mubarak stepped down after the 2011 revolution will now hold legislative authority, a legal expert told the state-owned Ahram Online news site.
