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Comparison of selected legal systems
Attribute	ParaguayReviewed	DR CongoReviewed	UgandaReviewed	AustraliaReviewed
Legal family	Civil law	Civil law (Belgian tradition)	Mixed (common law and customary law)	Common law
System of government	Unitary presidential republic	Unitary semi-presidential republic	Unitary presidential republic	Federal parliamentary constitutional monarchy
Constitution	Constitution of the Republic of Paraguay	Constitution of the Democratic Republic of the Congo	Constitution of the Republic of Uganda	Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act
In force since	1992	2006	1995	1901
Capital	Asunción	Kinshasa	Kampala	Canberra
Official languages	Spanish, Guaraní	French, Lingala, Swahili, Kikongo, Tshiluba	English, Swahili, Luganda	English
Currency	Paraguayan guaraní (PYG)	Congolese Franc (CDF)	Ugandan Shilling (UGX)	Australian Dollar (AUD)
Population	6,900,000	102,300,000	48,600,000	26,800,000
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.	Semi-presidential: a directly elected President, a Prime Minister from the parliamentary majority, and a bicameral Parliament. The 2006 constitution split the former Supreme Court into three separate apex courts.	Presidential system with a Prime Minister, a unicameral Parliament, and a judiciary in which the Supreme Court, Court of Appeal (sitting also as the Constitutional Court) and High Court form the superior courts.	Chapter III strictly separates federal judicial power; the High Court polices the boundary and may invalidate legislation for exceeding it.
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 both chambers; persistent disagreement is resolved by a joint commission or a final National Assembly vote. The President promulgates within the constitutional period, and the Constitutional Court may be seised beforehand.	Bills receive three readings with committee scrutiny; certificates of financial implication are required for money bills. The President assents, returns the bill twice with recommendations, or it becomes law if passed a third time by two-thirds.	Bills pass both chambers and receive Royal Assent. A persistent deadlock can trigger a double dissolution and, ultimately, a joint sitting.
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.	Avocats admitted to provincial bars under the national Ordre des avocats after a law degree and traineeship; défenseurs judiciaires assist in lower courts.	Fused; an LLB, the Law Development Centre post-graduate diploma and enrolment admit an advocate. The Uganda Law Society is the professional body.	Admission is state-based but nationally recognised; practitioners may be admitted as barristers and solicitors, with an independent bar in most states.

A comparison table flattens nuance by design. Where a difference matters to a decision you are making, open both portals and read the section in full — the constitutional detail behind a one-line summary is often the part that governs the outcome.