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Comparison of selected legal systems
Attribute	ParaguayReviewed	TongaReviewed	ComorosReviewed	BhutanReviewed
Legal family	Civil law	Common law with customary law	Mixed French civil law and Islamic law	Mixed common law and Buddhist customary tradition
System of government	Unitary presidential republic	Constitutional monarchy	Federal presidential republic	Constitutional monarchy
Constitution	Constitution of the Republic of Paraguay	Act of Constitution of Tonga	Constitution of the Union of the Comoros	Constitution of the Kingdom of Bhutan
In force since	1992	1875	2001	2008
Capital	Asunción	Nuku'alofa	Moroni	Thimphu
Official languages	Spanish, Guaraní	Tongan, English	Comorian, Arabic, French	Dzongkha
Currency	Paraguayan guaraní (PYG)	Tongan paʻanga (TOP)	Comorian franc (KMF)	Bhutanese ngultrum (BTN)
Population	6,900,000	105,000	850,000	787,000
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. The Legislative Assembly legislates for the whole kingdom, and the island divisions of Tongatapu, Vava'u, Ha'apai, 'Eua and the Niuas are administrative districts headed by governors. Below that, town and district officers are elected under the Fakafekau'aki and District and Town Officers Act.	Federal. Grande Comore, Anjouan and Mohéli each have a governor and their own assembly with substantial autonomy over local administration, while the Union handles defence, currency, foreign affairs and nationality.	Unitary with constitutionally entrenched local government: 20 dzongkhags, each with an elected Dzongkhag Tshogdu, plus gewog and thromde councils. Article 22 requires devolution of power to elected local governments, and local bodies have defined planning and revenue functions.
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 Legislative Assembly and require the King's assent, which is a real rather than purely formal step. Ordinary bills need a simple majority. Amendments to the Constitution require a majority in the Assembly at three separate readings and the consent of the King and Privy Council, and clause 79 forbids any amendment affecting the law of liberty, the succession to the throne or the titles and hereditary estates of the nobles.	Bills originate with the government or members of the Assembly of the Union, are examined in committee and passed by the Assembly, then promulgated by the President. Matters within island competence are legislated by the island assemblies, and disputes over the boundary between Union and island competence are a standing feature of Comorian constitutional practice.	Bills pass both houses; disagreement goes to a joint sitting. The King grants assent, and if he withholds it the bill returns to a joint sitting where a two-thirds majority carries it. Money bills originate in the National Assembly. Constitutional amendment requires a three-quarters majority of a joint sitting and, if the King so directs, a national 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.	Law practitioners are admitted by the Chief Justice and licensed under the Law Practitioners Act, with the Tonga Law Society as the professional body. Most qualify overseas or at the University of the South Pacific. A practitioner working on land must know the Land Act's allotment system rather than general property law, because the constitutional bar on selling land means conveyancing in the ordinary sense does not exist.	A small bar of avocats admitted after French-model legal training, supplemented by qadis who require religious-law qualification for the personal-status jurisdiction; many practitioners train in France or Madagascar.	Regulated by the Bhutan National Legal Institute and the Jabmi Tshogdey (Bar Council) under the Jabmi Act. Practitioners, called jabmis, require a law degree — historically obtained in India — and a licence; the Jigme Singye Wangchuck School of Law in Thimphu graduated its first cohort in 2022, so domestic legal education is very new. The profession is small, numbering a few hundred licensed practitioners.

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