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The legal system of Venezuela belongs to the Continental Law tradition. Venezuela was the first country in the world to abolish the death penalty for all crimes, doing so in 1863.〔Roger G. Hood. ''The death penalty: a worldwide perspective'', Oxford University Press, 2002. p10〕 ==Public law== The basis for its public law is the 1999 Constitution. The 1999 Constitution made significant changes to the separation of powers. Instead of the usual three branches of government, the new Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela has five: # The executive branch (the Presidency). # The legislative branch (the National Assembly of Venezuela). # The judicial branch (the judiciary). # The electoral branch (''poder electoral'', or "electoral power"). # The citizens' branch (''poder ciudadano'', or "citizens' power"). The electoral branch is headed by the National Electoral Council (CNE) and is responsible for the independent oversight of all elections in the country, municipal, state, and federal. The citizens' branch is constituted by the ''(defensor del pueblo)'' (ombudsman or "defender of the people"), the Chief Public Prosecutor ''(fiscal general)'', and the comptroller general ''(contralor general)''. It is responsible for representing and defending the citizens in their dealings with powers of the Venezuelan state. The judicial branch is headed by the Supreme Tribunal of Justice, whose 32 justices ("magistrados") are elected by the National Assembly for a single 12-year term.〔Antonio Ramirez, May 2006, (An Introduction to Venezuelan Governmental Institutions And Primary Legal Sources )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Law of Venezuela」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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