Egypt is witnessing a blatant attempt to return to pharaonic rule in Egypt. President Morsi gave himself unlimited powers free of judicial oversight (Constitutional Declaration) in an attempt to gain executive independence and essentially establish a dictatorship.
The process by which a draft of a constitution was produced was done so over the protests of numerous groups who protested the sabotaging of the effort by Islamists intent on seeking their own interests rather than those of all parties.
We, the Coptic Christians living in the U.S, ask that the U.S. government exercise the leverage it has to persuade the Egyptian government to backtrack and modify the proposed constitution to make it more inclusive for all Egyptians and, also, to nullify the so-called Constitutional Declaration.



