Leaked video showed a Salafist leader privately assuring followers that the constitution contained "excellent" strictures on freedoms, and that, when Egypt's current, liberal-leaning top cleric was forced into retirement, its provisions for clerical oversight of the laws would come into their own.Mr Morsi ordered a snap referendum to approve the draft.
But you know what, the Bill of Rights and the Constitution are excellent laws, but they are human law.
For those who want to dig deeper into some of the Americas stories that made this week's newspaper, a selection of background material:Latin America's constitutions: This excellent paper by Gabriel Negretto looks at the relationship between amending and replacing constitutions.
"The delegates viewed the convention as the last chance to rescue the American experiment," Mr. Lane and Mr. Oreskes write, and they have provided us with an excellent discussion of how the Constitution, frequently revised by amendment, has managed to survive through numerous challenges and crises.
Constitutional Commissions, 1987 Constitution.
Judge Andrew P. Napolitano recommended Curtis' book in his books The Constitution in Exile, and Constitutional Chaos, writing, "Michael Kent Curtis offers an excellent and detailed account of the troubled affair between Clement Vallandigham and Abraham Lincoln in this work".
(I am relying here on the analysis of Evan Gerstman, a political scientist at Loyola Marymount University, in his excellent book "Same-Sex Marriage and the Constitution").
In "Justice Breyer's Sharp Aim" (Op-Ed, Dec. 22), Pauline Maier offers an excellent critique of the assault on our Constitution by five conservative justices of the Supreme Court as they distort the meaning of the Second Amendment.
It is perfectly possible to leave secondary school today with excellent academic qualifications but little understanding of the constitution, parliament, the judicial system and the effect all three have on our lives.
It was a truly lousy point, and by calling it excellent, McCain demonstrated a disturbing ignorance about the Constitution.
