I wrote to Professor Vernon Bogdanor, the closest thing we have to a formal constitutional expert in this country where no formal constitution exists.
"No constitution is written in a vacuum," said Louis Aucoin, a constitutional expert at the Institute of Peace in Washington who recently worked in East Timor.
The resulting confusion has made the anomalies in the constitution, and in some laws, all the more glaring.Mahmud Kashani, a conservative constitutional expert, accuses Mr Khatami of making a bad situation worse.
A constitutional expert from Florida, Steven Gey, was enlisted, too.
"We don't have enough to go on yet," said constitutional expert Vernon Bogdanor.
Any constitutional expert will tell you that agencies have only the authorities delegated by Congress.
I'm not a constitutional expert, but he did what was lawful.
"I'm not a constitutional expert, I can only refer you back to President Parry," he said.
The influential public philosopher and constitutional expert, Sir Bernard Crick, has died.
"You need a new generation before this kind of change shows real results," says Vernon Bogdanor, a constitutional expert.
Philip Norton, a Tory and a constitutional expert, said rerunning the referendum was "an extremely dangerous path to pursue".
