After the war ended in late 1638, the magistrates began drafting a body of principles and laws; these were ratified in January 1638/9.
Additionally, SK made calculations, developed graphs and drafted main body of manuscript.
The ruling would have invalidated the constituent assembly, the body drafting the constitution, and dissolved the consultative council – the only remaining elected body after the same court dissolved parliament in June.
By the same token, elected members of the Shura council, who will be part of the body drafting the constitution, will certainly resist any attempts by a constituent assembly to abolish the upper house in the new constitution, as they would be mandating the dissolution of the same house that they were elected to only a few weeks before.
Another proposal is to put prominent Sunnis on the constitution-drafting body that the future parliament will create.It may be too late.
"The 'principles' of Islamic sharia is an inclusive term that reflects the consensus of Muslim clerics," says one of the university's scholars on the constitution-drafting body.
The best, he says, that opposition luminaries can hope for is membership of an advisory council to be chosen by the military governor, and, after about a year, election to a constitution-drafting body.
Charges that the constitution-drafting body fails to represent a broader diversity of Egyptian society have been underlined by serial resignations of its members, and a court ruling due soon may end its tenure.
Egypt's judges have serially and petulantly interfered with the creation of better democratic institutions, disbanding an elected parliament on a technicality and threatening to scrap the constitution-drafting body.
It will also have the right to choose and direct a constituent assembly or a constitution-drafting body to produce a document spelling out the president's powers and, presumably, new rules for fresh elections to parliament.These are threatening moves, but so far at least this does not seem to be a counter-revolution.
