According to the Kirkpatrick/Fahim report [N.Y. Times 7-16-13] the Army plan is for a committee
of 10 select jurists to emend the Morsi Constitution which will then be submitted to an appointed constituent assembly for review. The final “package” will then go to a national referendum.
This is the military’s “transitional road map” and it leaves the fundamental legal questions up to the appointed committee and assembly members.
I do not doubt the emended document will produce a division of powers between the President and the Legislative body. My concern is that the supreme court magistrates be selected for life.
These judges should be 9 or 12 in number. One third should be Presidential appointments. One third should be Army selectees. And one third should be selected by a parliamentary judiciary committee for confirmation by national ballot. Why do I ask for this? Because the current government of the nearby Turkish Republic has deleted their army’s traditional role as the watchdog of
secular democracy.
Is there any country which has such a mixed system?