Only a fraction of these texts are of significant length and most of those are tomb inscriptions but a few are decrees.
But on past form that looks unlikely a few presidential decrees and some much-advertised signs of progress usually do the trick.So Russia may well be let off the hook yet again partly, perhaps, because of Yugoslavia, and partly because elections are coming.
But it is also a command economy: when the government decrees fewer imports from the U.S., companies will comply without complaint.
In Brussels, several European Union officials have stated in the last few days that the decrees should not be a bar to joining.
"Starting today," Justice Thomas wrote, "ours can count itself among the few in which judicial decree prevents voters from making that choice".
But Richard Blumenthal, the attorney general of Connecticut, one of the dissenting states, said the changes underlined just a few of the consent decree's broader shortcomings.
In a television interview, Mr. Morsi's spokesman, Yasser Ali, stressed that the expanded powers would last only until the ratification of a new constitution in a few months, calling the decree "an attempt to end the transitional period as soon as possible".
A few months after executive decree 16 was issued in June 2013, Pachamama was closed down for having violated the order, in what Mario Melo, the foundation's lawyer, calls a "tainted and invalid administrative process where Pachamama wasn't given the right to defend itself".
A few months later he decreed that Digicel could not beam microwave transmissions from its towers, potentially rendering them useless.
"In any Western advanced country, a few pages of that decree would have been sufficient to determine the cessation of any activity".
