Sentence examples for constitutional decrees from inspiring English sources
General Sisi made no mention of any period of military rule and granted the acting president, Mr. Mansour, the power to issue "constitutional decrees" during the transition.
Cancel the constitutional decree.
Further details of the new constitutional decree were unclear.
The cries grew louder when the SCAF issued a constitutional decree as polls closed that stripped the incoming president of many of his powers, including oversight of the armed forces.
Massachusetts' move ignited a national backlash as other states tumbled over one another to enact legal bans on gay marriage, often by constitutional decree, as quickly as they could.
As my colleague David Kirkpatrick reports, tens of thousands marched to Tahrir on Tuesday to denounce President Mohamed Morsi's recent constitutional decree, in which he granted himself broad new powers.
Since Morsi already had vast executive and legislative powers, the constitutional decree he announced on Nov. 22, which grants him complete immunity from judicial oversight, appears to give him effective control over all three branches of government.
As protests continued in early December, Morsi bowed to public anger and rescinded parts of his constitutional decree but retained the article preventing the courts from dissolving the Constituent Assembly.
Shortly after Scaf issued its constitutional decree in June, a broad coalition of the opposition met in the Fairmont Hotel in Cairo and issued a declaration promising to undo Scaf's move.
In retrospect, he writes, Mr. Morsi's audacious decision to issue a constitutional decree placing his orders above judicial review set the final events in motion: The events leading up to the military takeover began last fall, around the time that President Mohamed Morsi issues a decree suspending judicial review of his authority until after the passage of a new constitution.
One, Amr al-Libiy, told Reuters: "He didn't change his decision or the constitutional decree until people were killed... so we will not leave until he leaves".
