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Comparison of selected legal systems
Attribute	ParaguayReviewed	DenmarkReviewed	AustriaReviewed	CambodiaReviewed
Legal family	Civil law	Civil law (Nordic)	Civil law	Civil law
System of government	Unitary presidential republic	Constitutional monarchy	Federal parliamentary republic	Unitary constitutional monarchy
Constitution	Constitution of the Republic of Paraguay	Constitutional Act of Denmark (Grundloven)	Bundes-Verfassungsgesetz (B-VG)	Constitution of the Kingdom of Cambodia
In force since	1992	1953	1920	1993
Capital	Asunción	Copenhagen	Vienna	Phnom Penh
Official languages	Spanish, Guaraní	Danish	German	Khmer
Currency	Paraguayan guaraní (PYG)	Danish krone (DKK)	Euro (EUR)	Riel (KHR)
Population	6,900,000	5,900,000	9,100,000	17,000,000
Division of powers	Unitary with seventeen departments and the capital district, each with an elected governor and departmental board holding administrative and limited fiscal competence. Legislative power is national.	Parliamentary government in which the cabinet is drawn from and answerable to the Folketing, with an independent unified judiciary.	Nine Länder hold their own constitutions, parliaments and governments, but the federation retains far more legislative power than in Germany or Switzerland; much Länder activity is administering federal law (mittelbare Bundesverwaltung). Three separate high courts sit at the apex, for constitutional, administrative and ordinary matters respectively.	Unitary, with 25 provinces and the capital. The Organic Law of 2008 created elected councils at provincial, municipal and district level, but fiscal and appointment power remains centralised in the Ministry of Interior.
How law is made	Bills may start in either chamber and must pass both. The President may object in whole or part; Congress overcomes an objection by absolute majority in both chambers. Constitutional amendment requires a two-thirds vote of each chamber and ratification by referendum; wholesale reform requires a constituent assembly.	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 originate with the government, members of the Nationalrat, the Bundesrat or a popular initiative, and pass three readings in the Nationalrat. The Bundesrat may object but can normally be overridden. The Federal President authenticates the law, the Chancellor countersigns, and it is published in the Bundesgesetzblatt.	Bills are introduced by the government or by members, pass the National Assembly, go to the Senate for review within a fixed period, and return to the Assembly which may override Senate objections. The Constitutional Council may be asked to review a text before promulgation by the King. Much operative detail is then set by sub-decree, which does not pass through the Assembly at all.
Legal profession	A law degree and registration of the title with the Supreme Court, which maintains the roll and exercises discipline. Bar membership is voluntary. Because both Spanish and Guaraní are official, courts must provide interpretation, and practitioners outside Asunción are commonly bilingual.	A single advokat profession admitted after a law degree, practical training and a bar course; judges are appointed from experienced lawyers.	A Rechtsanwalt qualifies through a law degree, five years of practical training including at least three in a law firm and some months at court, and the bar examination. Admission is via the regional bar chambers under the umbrella of the Österreichischer Rechtsanwaltskammertag. Notaries are a separate profession with appointments limited in number.	Lawyers are admitted by the Bar Association of the Kingdom of Cambodia, which controls the entrance examination and the training centre and holds a statutory monopoly on court representation. The profession was rebuilt from single figures in the early 1990s and now numbers well over a thousand. Foreign lawyers may advise and appear only in association with a Cambodian member, and notarial functions sit with a small licensed notariat created under the Civil Code reforms.

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