Morsi Should Not Have Been Removed From Power by the Military

I. Respect for Institutions and the Law " The very foundation of all strong democracies is the trust and legitimacy of elections and the electoral process"Not true. The foundation of strong democracies depends entirely on the checks and balances enforced on all branches of the national government.... Those checks and balances on the Egyptian presidency didnt exist since their own Constitution didnt set up protocol for impeaching a president. "If he violated the Constitution of the country he should have been impeached instead of overthrown."Their Constitution doesnt have a process for carrying out an impeachment of the president though.... Once Morsi was elected there literally was no legal way to remove him from power without either killing him or a military intervention..... On the other hand Morsi did do several things that were blatantly illegal.... One of the first things he did was overturn a courts ruling to dissolve the Parliament for new elections, which the president is not allowed to do. Morsi also made declarations where he could make decisions that were immune from judicial review. http://www.dailynewsegypt.com...Morsi did several things that were illegal and unconstitutional, but he couldnt be impeached since the Egyptian Constitution didnt set up protocol for how a president could be impeached. So instead the military stepped in to do the right thing and remove Morsi from power. " To keep this democracy alive and well Morsi should not have been deposed by the military, that action undermined the entire democratic system they were trying to construct. Instead he should have been dealt with via channels through the government and the courts and the law. "But those channels literally didnt exist! There was no means for impeaching a president anywhere in Egyptian law, which means the only way you can remove a president from power is through a military coup, or through an assassination. The military coup allows for a new Constitution to be implemented and a new president to be elected while an assassination doesnt, so a military coup was the only good option for the people of Egypt. 2) Turmoil once more"The military overthrow of Morsi has thrown the country back into turmoil."Now hold on, Egypt was in turmoil well before people even wanted Morsi to be overthrown.... Unemployment is at 12.5% and climbing, its around 25% for youth, foreign investments in Egypt dropped by $418 million in 2011 (well before all the hubub with Morsi happened), many people can only barely afford food while many cant afford electricity, and Egypts national debt is one of the highest in the Middle East.... http://www.dw.de...Theyve been in turmoil LONG before Morsi was ever ousted, and his ousting didnt cause any of this turmoil either since it already existed..."With the military's intervention, they have degraded their democratic system and made the country unsafe for people of certain views and beliefs and therefore unfree" Their own Constitution makes it so that the principles of Islamic law makes up the main source of legislation... It also only recognized Islam, Christianity, and Judaism as religions people are free to worship, and there isnt a single thing about the protection of women's rights, other basic freedoms of minorities in the Constitution, or freedom of expression either. People were unfree the second their Constitution was adopted and the Constitution was pretty illegitimate from the start... Getting rid of Morsi didnt make people any more or less unfree.....http://www.slate.com..."The relative peace and steps towards a stable future have been shattered because of this military uprising."Egypt is the story of presidents abusing their powers without there being any legal means to impeach them, and Morsi was going down the same road and taking all of Egypt with him. The military intervention is allowing Egypt to take that critical first step to becoming a strong democracy by giving them the opportunity to iron out all the problems with their government that keeps allowing for power hungry dictators to keep coming to power. III. The Alternative"If he had been allowed to stay in office, he might have tried to grab some powers sure, but he was being thwarted by the courts, as is supposed to happen in a democratic system"He wasnt being stopped by the Courts to do anything, in fact he made it so that the Courts couldnt judge on ANY of his decisions and orders so the claim that the courts were keeping him in place is a flat out lie. http://www.cnn.com..." The crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood would not have happened"You dont know that.... If Morsi stayed in power he easily could have become even more unpopular to the point that people would be openly killing members of the Muslim Brotherhood, which is a hell of a lot worse then what the Muslim brotherhood and its members are facing right now...."The government system established after Mubarek would have remained in place, ripe for reform and amendment"Thats just wishful thinking.... Theres absolutely no evidence that Morsi would have carried out more popular reforms since he only focused on pleasing his own constituents, the Muslim Brotherhoodhttp://www.juancole.com..."It would have arguably led to a stronger, more unified and consolidated Democratic Egypt."Had Morsi been left in power it only would have led Egypt right back to authoritarian rule from a corrupted ruler.... To think that Morsi was a reformist and Egypt's George Washington os a belief that can only be held by those who are woefully unaware of Morsi's rule....ConclusionIll skip responding to Pro's rhetoric (since its nothing BUT rhetoric) and make it simple - 1 - Morsi blatantly abused the power of the Presidency in Egypt - 2 - There was literally no legal means for him to be impeached through Parliament, the courts, a national vote, etc - 3 - He clearly was guilty of abusing his powers which meant that it was right to remove him from power - 4 - The only clean way you could remove him from power was through intervention by the military, or by killing him Therefore, Morsi should have been removed from power since he was abusing it, and he should have been removed by the military since there was literally no other way to remove him from power short of killing him....