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Comparison of selected legal systems
Attribute	DenmarkReviewed	BotswanaReviewed	LithuaniaReviewed	ChileReviewed	GrenadaReviewed
Legal family	Civil law (Nordic)	Mixed Roman-Dutch and English common law	Civil law	Civil law	Common law
System of government	Constitutional monarchy	Parliamentary republic	Unitary semi-presidential republic	Unitary presidential republic	Constitutional monarchy
Constitution	Constitutional Act of Denmark (Grundloven)	Constitution of Botswana	Constitution of the Republic of Lithuania	Political Constitution of the Republic of Chile	The Grenada Constitution
In force since	1953	1966	1992	1980	1973
Capital	Copenhagen	Gaborone	Vilnius	Santiago	Saint George's
Official languages	Danish	English, Setswana	Lithuanian	Spanish	English
Currency	Danish krone (DKK)	Botswana pula (BWP)	Euro (EUR)	Chilean peso (CLP)	East Caribbean dollar (XCD)
Population	5,900,000	2,680,000	2,860,000	19,600,000	126,000
Division of powers	Parliamentary government in which the cabinet is drawn from and answerable to the Folketing, with an independent unified judiciary.	Unitary. Districts and sub-districts administer central policy, and the House of Chiefs (Ntlo ya Dikgosi) is an advisory chamber that must be consulted on bills affecting customary law, tribal organisation and tribal property.	Semi-presidential government with a directly elected President focused on foreign and security policy, a Government answerable to the Seimas, and a separate Constitutional Court.	Unitary. Sixteen regions administer but do not legislate. Regional governors have been directly elected since 2021, which shifted real power away from the centrally appointed delegates, but legislative competence remains exclusively national.	Unitary. The state comprises Grenada, Carriacou and Petite Martinique; Carriacou and Petite Martinique have a Ministry and local administration but no separate legislature.
How law is made	Bills pass three readings in the Folketing and receive royal assent. A minority of members can require certain bills to be put to a referendum.	Bills are introduced in the National Assembly, take three readings with committee scrutiny between the second and third, and go to the President for assent. Bills affecting customary law, tribal property or the organisation of the tribes must first be referred to the Ntlo ya Dikgosi for its opinion, though that opinion does not bind the Assembly.	Bills are adopted by the Seimas and signed by the President, who may veto and return a bill for reconsideration.	Bills originate with the President or in either chamber, though tax, budget and social-security bills are the President's exclusive initiative — an unusually strong executive agenda power. Both chambers must approve; a mixed committee resolves conflict. The President may veto, overridden by two-thirds. Constitutional amendment needs four-sevenths of sitting members, with two-thirds for certain entrenched chapters.	Bills pass three readings in both Houses and receive the Governor-General's assent. Constitutional amendments to entrenched provisions need a two-thirds majority in the House of Representatives and then approval by a referendum, a double lock that has defeated every reform package put to voters.
Legal profession	A single advokat profession admitted after a law degree, practical training and a bar course; judges are appointed from experienced lawyers.	A fused profession of attorneys admitted by the High Court after a recognised law degree and articles of pupillage; there is no split between advocates and attorneys, and the Law Society of Botswana regulates practice.	Advocates belong to the Lithuanian Bar Association; notaries handle property, company and succession formalities.	A five-year degree, a supervised practice period, and admission by the Supreme Court itself, which is unusual — the Court, not a bar, confers the title of abogado. Membership of the Colegio de Abogados has been voluntary since 1981, so the Court retains disciplinary jurisdiction over misconduct.	A fused profession of legal practitioners admitted by the High Court under the Legal Profession Act, after a law degree and the Legal Education Certificate. The Grenada Bar Association represents practitioners.

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