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Comparison of selected legal systems
Attribute	ParaguayReviewed	HaitiReviewed	DR CongoReviewed	DenmarkReviewed
Legal family	Civil law	Civil law	Civil law (Belgian tradition)	Civil law (Nordic)
System of government	Unitary presidential republic	Unitary semi-presidential republic	Unitary semi-presidential republic	Constitutional monarchy
Constitution	Constitution of the Republic of Paraguay	Constitution de la République d'Haïti	Constitution of the Democratic Republic of the Congo	Constitutional Act of Denmark (Grundloven)
In force since	1992	1987	2006	1953
Capital	Asunción	Port-au-Prince	Kinshasa	Copenhagen
Official languages	Spanish, Guaraní	French, Haitian Creole	French, Lingala, Swahili, Kikongo, Tshiluba	Danish
Currency	Paraguayan guaraní (PYG)	Haitian gourde (HTG)	Congolese Franc (CDF)	Danish krone (DKK)
Population	6,900,000	11,600,000	102,300,000	5,900,000
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.	Unitary with constitutionally recognised decentralisation to 10 departments, arrondissements and communes, and to the communal section as the smallest territorial unit. In practice the elected local bodies are largely unfilled and replaced by appointed interim commissions.	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.	Parliamentary government in which the cabinet is drawn from and answerable to the Folketing, with an independent unified judiciary.
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.	Under the 1987 Constitution bills pass both chambers and are promulgated by the President, who may return a text once for reconsideration. With Parliament not sitting, measures have been issued as executive decrees since 2020 — a practice widely criticised as lacking constitutional foundation, and a key reason to check the current status of any recent instrument before relying on it.	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 pass three readings in the Folketing and receive royal assent. A minority of members can require certain bills to be put to a referendum.
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.	Advocates are admitted to one of the departmental bars (Ordre des avocats), most prominently the Port-au-Prince bar, after a law degree and a period of pupillage. Notaries hold a separate public office with exclusive competence over authentic acts including land transfers, which matters greatly given widespread informality in land title.	Avocats admitted to provincial bars under the national Ordre des avocats after a law degree and traineeship; défenseurs judiciaires assist in lower courts.	A single advokat profession admitted after a law degree, practical training and a bar course; judges are appointed from experienced lawyers.

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.