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Comparison of selected legal systems
Attribute	ParaguayReviewed	UruguayReviewed	DR CongoReviewed	NetherlandsReviewed
Legal family	Civil law	Civil law	Civil law (Belgian tradition)	Civil law
System of government	Unitary presidential republic	Unitary presidential republic	Unitary semi-presidential republic	Unitary parliamentary constitutional monarchy
Constitution	Constitution of the Republic of Paraguay	Constitution of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay	Constitution of the Democratic Republic of the Congo	Grondwet (Constitution of the Netherlands)
In force since	1992	1967	2006	1815
Capital	Asunción	Montevideo	Kinshasa	Amsterdam
Official languages	Spanish, Guaraní	Spanish	French, Lingala, Swahili, Kikongo, Tshiluba	Dutch, Frisian
Currency	Paraguayan guaraní (PYG)	Uruguayan peso (UYU)	Congolese Franc (CDF)	Euro (EUR)
Population	6,900,000	3,400,000	102,300,000	17,900,000
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. Nineteen departments have elected intendentes and juntas with administrative and local taxing competence, and municipalities were added in 2010, but all legislative power belongs to the General Assembly.	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.	A decentralised unitary state rather than a federation: twelve provinces and the municipalities hold delegated autonomy, not sovereign competence. The Kingdom also includes Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten as autonomous countries, with Bonaire, Saba and Sint Eustatius as special municipalities.
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; disagreement is resolved by the General Assembly sitting jointly. The executive may veto, overcome by three-fifths of the joint assembly. Distinctively, 25% of registered voters can force a referendum to repeal a statute within one year of promulgation, and 10% can initiate a constitutional plebiscite.	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.	A bill is submitted to the Advisory Division of the Council of State for an opinion, then to the Tweede Kamer, which may amend it, and then to the Eerste Kamer, which may only accept or reject. After adoption it is signed by the King and the responsible minister and published in the Staatsblad.
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 degree from the Universidad de la República or an accredited private faculty confers the title of abogado, with registration by the Supreme Court. Membership of the Colegio de Abogados del Uruguay is voluntary; the Supreme Court exercises discipline. Escribanos públicos are a separate profession with exclusive competence over conveyancing.	Avocats admitted to provincial bars under the national Ordre des avocats after a law degree and traineeship; défenseurs judiciaires assist in lower courts.	Advocaten are admitted to the bar (Nederlandse orde van advocaten) after a law degree and a three-year traineeship with the professional course. Representation by an advocaat is compulsory before most courts but not before the kantonrechter. Notaries and bailiffs (deurwaarders) are separate regulated professions.

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