ABSTRACT
Public participation implies a wider understanding regarding the guarantee of more accessibility in different stages of the constitution-making process that goes beyond the initial drafting step. Jennifer Widner identifies five stages of the process of constitution making, which she names the drafting, the consultation, the deliberation, the adoption, and the ratification. Public participation was of huge importance in the making of the Egyptian Constitution that is to send a message to the West that the removal of the former regime was not the outcome of a military coup but a popular uprising. Judging from the relevant circumstances and methodologies adopted in the making process of the Egyptian Constitution, it was envisaged from the outset that the public was consulted throughout most of the stages of the process. It is safe to say that the role played by the international community in the process of making the Egyptian Constitution was, after all, neutral.
