Officials are seen in the Egyptian parliament in Cairo, Egypt, Monday, July 9, 2012. The speaker of Egypt's Islamist-dominated parliament called Monday for the legislature to meet this week, raising the stakes in a tense standoff with the powerful military which backed a court ruling to dissolve the chamber. (AP Photo/Mohammed Asad)
Officials are seen in the Egyptian parliament in Cairo, Egypt, Monday, July 9, 2012. The speaker of Egypt's Islamist-dominated parliament called Monday for the legislature to meet this week, raising the stakes in a tense standoff with the powerful military which backed a court ruling to dissolve the chamber. (AP Photo/Mohammed Asad)
Workers clean inside the Egyptian parliament in Cairo, Egypt, Monday, July 9, 2012. The speaker of Egypt's Islamist-dominated parliament called Monday for the legislature to meet this week, raising the stakes in a tense standoff with the powerful military which backed a court ruling to dissolve the chamber. (AP Photo/Mohammed Asad)
CAIRO (AP) ? Egypt's powerful military has delivered a thinly veiled warning to the country's new president, saying it expects all state institutions to respect the constitution.
Monday's statement followed a decision by Islamist President Mohammed Morsi to revoke last month's executive order by the then-ruling military to dissolve parliament after the country's highest court said a third of its members were illegally elected.
The military also defended a "constitutional declaration" giving it far-reaching powers after handing over power to Morsi June 30.
The statement says the military will continue to support "legitimacy, the constitution and the law" ? language that means the generals would likely oppose attempts to reconvene parliament in defiance of the court's ruling.
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