It added that another election will be held within 60 days of a new constitution being approved by the nation in a public referendum. The charter is not expected to be drafted before the end of the year. Mr Morsi is keen to ensure that parliament will be responsible for law making in the meantime, not the generals who had appointed themselves interim rulers with full legislative power until Mr Morsi's election on June 30. The Supreme Constitutional Court ordered the lower house of parliament dissolved on June 14 after finding that one-third of the Muslim Brotherhood-dominated house were party members who had run for seats reserved for independent candidates. The generals implemented the decision two days later and then issued a decree outlining presidential powers on June 17, even before presidential election votes were counted. It also ruled as unconstitutional the political isolation law, which sought to bar senior members of ousted president Hosni Mubarak's regime and top members of his now-dissolved party from running for public office for 10 years. Sunday's decrees came hours after Mr Morsi met William Burns, the US Deputy Secretary of State, and an announcement that President Barack Obama will meet Egypt's first Islamist leader at the UN General Assembly in New York in September. Freedom and Justice, an off-shoot of the Muslim Brotherhood and the president's former party, controls almost half of the seats in the disbanded parliament. These representatives combined with those of the Salafi Nour Party mean that Islamists hold two-thirds of the legislature. Shadi Hamid, director of research at the Brookings Doha Center, said the apparent failure to inform the military could set the stage for a showdown between the two sides. If it was a power-play on the part of Morsi then it is going to lead to unprecedented tensions because it's a direct challenge to the legitimacy of both SCAF and the judiciary. While it was difficult to see how the military could abide by the presidential decree, the outcome of this confrontation will no doubt establish who will win the upper hand in the future of the Egyptian state. This announcement from the president will undoubtedly result ina clash with the military council and the high court. It is possible the military will still forbid the members from entering government," Amr Hashim Rabie, political expert in Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies. But this is the first crisis of Mr Mursi's presidency and no one really knows how it will play out. It will be very interesting to see the reaction of the court, the military council and of course the people in the coming days. The crisis certainly will not be resolved easily.