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Comparison of selected legal systems
Attribute	MauritaniaReviewed	RomaniaReviewed	MexicoReviewed
Legal family	Mixed (Islamic law and French civil law)	Civil law	Civil law
System of government	Unitary presidential republic	Unitary semi-presidential republic	Federal presidential republic
Constitution	Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania	Constitution of Romania	Political Constitution of the United Mexican States
In force since	1991	1991	1917
Capital	Nouakchott	Bucharest	Mexico City
Official languages	Arabic, French, Pulaar, Soninke, Wolof	Romanian	Spanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
Currency	Ouguiya (MRU)	Romanian leu (RON)	Mexican peso (MXN)
Population	4,900,000	19,000,000	130,000,000
Division of powers	Presidential system with a President elected for five years, a unicameral National Assembly since the 2017 abolition of the Senate, and a judiciary that includes Sharia jurisdiction in personal status and certain criminal matters.	Semi-presidential: a directly elected President shares executive power with a Government answerable to Parliament, and constitutional conflicts between them are themselves justiciable before the Constitutional Court.	Federal. Powers not expressly granted to the union are reserved to the 32 states (Article 124). States run their own civil, family and criminal-enforcement codes, but criminal procedure, labour and commercial law were federalised to produce single national codes.
How law is made	Bills are examined in committee and voted by the National Assembly, then promulgated by the President. The Conseil constitutionnel may be seised before promulgation.	A bill goes to a first-notified chamber and then to the decisional chamber, whose vote is final. The President may return it once for reconsideration or refer it to the Constitutional Court before promulgation and publication in Monitorul Oficial.	Bills may be introduced by the President, either chamber, state legislatures or by citizens with 0.13% of the electoral roll. Both chambers must pass an identical text; the President may veto, and Congress overrides with two-thirds of each chamber. Constitutional amendments need two-thirds of Congress plus a majority of state legislatures (Article 135).
Legal profession	Avocats admitted through the Ordre national des avocats; training combines French-style procedure with Islamic legal studies.	Lawyers (avocați) are admitted through local bars affiliated to the UNBR after examination and a two-year traineeship; notaries and judicial enforcement officers are separate professions.	A law degree plus a cédula profesional from the Education Ministry licenses practice; there is no compulsory bar examination or single mandatory bar, which distinguishes Mexico from most of the region. Notaries public are a separate, strictly limited state-appointed profession with exclusive competence over real estate and company deeds.

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