word | | Legal system |
| acts | Paraguay | civil law system with influences from Argentine, Spanish, Roman, and French civil law models; judicial review of legislative acts in Supreme Court of Justice |
| acts | Poland | civil law system; changes gradually being introduced as part of broader democratization process; limited judicial review of legislative acts, but rulings of the Constitutional Tribunal are final |
| acts | Portugal | civil law system; Constitutional Tribunal review of legislative acts |
| acts | Russia | civil law system; judicial review of legislative acts |
| acts | Rwanda | mixed legal system of civil law, based on German and Belgian models, and customary law; judicial review of legislative acts in the Supreme Court |
| acts | Samoa | mixed legal system of English common law and customary law; judicial review of legislative acts with respect to fundamental rights of the citizen |
| acts | Senegal | civil law system based on French law; judicial review of legislative acts in Constitutional Court |
| acts | Switzerland | civil law system; judicial review of legislative acts, except for federal decrees of a general obligatory character |
| acts | Tanzania | English common law; judicial review of legislative acts limited to matters of interpretation |
| acts | Trinidad and Tobago | English common law; judicial review of legislative acts in the Supreme Court |
| acts | Tunisia | mixed legal system of civil law, based on the French civil code, and Islamic law; some judicial review of legislative acts in the Supreme Court in joint session |
| acts | Ukraine | civil law system; judicial review of legislative acts |
| Acts | United Kingdom | common law system; has nonbinding judicial review of Acts of Parliament under the Human Rights Act of 1998 |
| acts | United States | ... law system based on English common law at the federal level; state legal systems based on common law except Louisiana, which is based on Napoleonic civil code; judicial review of legislative acts |
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