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December 28, 2012

Egypt's Majoritarian Islamist Constitution

Michael J. Totten, Dispatches

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Egyptian voters just approved a new constitution in a popular referendum, so it’s safe to say at this point that the country has undergone a regime change. The military government installed by Gamal Abdel Nasser’s “Free Officers Movement” in 1952, which continued in a crippled form for a while after Hosni Mubarak was removed from power, is now finished.

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TAGGED: Tunisia, Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt

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