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December 20, 2012

Deep Divisions as Egypt's Second Vote Nears

Ashraf Khalil, Time

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New constitutions, particularly in post-revolutionary societies, ought to be unifying documents. They are supposed to articulate what collective future a nation sees for itself. Halfway through the final step in Egypt’s tortured and toxic constitutional process, no such consensus exists.

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