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  2. List of national legal systems - Wikipedia

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    The contemporary national legal systems are generally based on one of four major legal traditions: civil law, common law, customary law, religious law or combinations of these. However, the legal system of each country is shaped by its unique history and so incorporates individual variations. [ 1 ]

  3. Legal pluralism - Wikipedia

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    Sources of Islamic law include the Koran, Sunnah and Ijma, but most modern Western nation-states take the basis of their legal system from the Christian superpowers of old (Britain, France etc.). That is also why moral laws found in the Bible have actually been made full-fledged laws, with the initial grundnorm set far back in legal history ...

  4. Hybrid regime - Wikipedia

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    A hybrid regime [a] is a type of political system often created as a result of an incomplete democratic transition from an authoritarian regime to a democratic one (or vice versa). [ b ] Hybrid regimes are categorized as having a combination of autocratic features with democratic ones and can simultaneously hold political repressions and ...

  5. Legal system - Wikipedia

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    Code of Ur-Nammu, setting forth the legal system that governed Ur in the third millennium BCE. A legal system is a set of legal norms and institutions and processes by which those norms are applied, often within a particular jurisdiction or community. [1] [2] It may also be referred to as a legal order. [3]

  6. Political system - Wikipedia

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    A hybrid regime [a] is a type of political system often created as a result of an incomplete democratic transition from an authoritarian regime to a democratic one (or vice versa). [b] Hybrid regimes are categorized as having a combination of autocratic features with democratic ones and can simultaneously hold political repressions and regular ...

  7. Religion and politics in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The separation of church and state is a legal and political principle which advocates derive from the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, which reads, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof".

  8. History of religion in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The percentage of Catholics in the United States increased from 1948 all the way to the 1980s, but then began declining again. The percentage of Jews in the United States has decreased from 4% to 2% during this same time period. There has been very little Jewish immigration to the US after 1948 in comparison to previous years.

  9. Legal history - Wikipedia

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    The legal history of the Catholic Church is the history of Catholic canon law, the oldest continuously functioning legal system in the West. [ 20 ] [ 21 ] Canon law originates much later than Roman law but predates the evolution of modern European civil law traditions.