Cameroon · Constitution
Constitution of the Republic of Cameroon
The 1972 text, extensively revised in 1996 to create a Senate, regional councils and a Constitutional Council, and to introduce presidential term limits later removed in 2008. The preamble incorporates the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the African Charter.
The constitutional text
The 1972 text, extensively revised in 1996 to create a Senate, regional councils and a Constitutional Council, and to introduce presidential term limits later removed in 2008. The preamble incorporates the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the African Charter.
Separation of powers
A strongly presidential system with a bicameral Parliament of National Assembly and Senate, and a judiciary in which the Supreme Court sits above separate common-law and civil-law appellate structures.
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