Libya Government and Politics

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Bordered by the Mediterranean Sea, and completely enclosed by the Sahara Desert, Libya is a low-populated country that was once was a part of the Roman province of New Africa. While the sum region is close up to 680,000 square miles, the population is close to merely 5.6 million, appearing in a low community frequency of 9.4 persons every square mile. Libya has a Parliamentary Government. A parliamentary democracy is a democratic form of government in which the party with the greatest representation in the parliament (legislature) forms the government. So instead of having the separation of powers like we do here in the United States, Libya’s government has its powers placed in one main section.
Executive actions are handled by representatives of the parliament selected by the prime minister to the cabinet. The parties in the minority give hostility to the majority and have the business to challenge it regularly. The prime minister can be eliminated from power on occasion that he fails to get the assurance of the majority of the overriding party or of the parliament.
How does the Libyan constitution differ from the one we have here in the United States? Well for one, under the Libyan constitution, their president has no power, while in the U.S constitution it states that the executive branch has been placed to ensure that it gets equal amount of power compared to the rest of the branches. The Libyan constitution has thirty-five amendments as the US constitution only contains seven.

The United States has two major parties, The Republican Party and the Democratic Party. Republicans accept that all persons are pledged for his or her own position in the commonwealth. Government should empower all human beings the strength to protect ...

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...etation of the constitution. They supervise the operation of other federal courts. In Libya all law is established on the Koran. The court system inhere of courts of prime occurrence, courts of appeals, and the concluding appellate level, and lastly the Supreme Court. There are again radical courts and military courts. They operate out of the regular court system and bid political violations and atrocities across the state.

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