Egypt heads to its constitutional midnight moment without its draft constitution being the supreme law of the land. After the 2012 constitution under the deposed President Mohamed Morsi was suspended, a 50-member panel entrusted with drafting the new document approved it on 1 December. A simple majority referendum has been put forward for 14 and 15 January. After a hasty two months of drafting, neither the military, legislature, judiciary, nor the president are bound by the constitution. And yet Amr Moussa, chairman of the outgoing 50-member drafting committee and a long time foreign minister and secretary-general of the Arab League, has predicted the referendum would pass with a 70 percent “yes” vote.