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Lebanon
Index
The Constitution and National Pact together form the framework
of Lebanon's parliamentary democracy. The Constitution provides for
three branches of government: an executive, a legislature, and an
independent judiciary. The president of the republic, who appoints
the prime minister, is elected by the Chamber of Deputies, the
legislative body. Although this system resembles that of a Western
democracy, because of the National Pact and its legitimization in
the Constitution, the president, ministers, and deputies act as
members of their respective confessional communities and not as atlarge representatives
(see Lebanese Confessional "Societies," ch
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Data as of December 1987
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