Law Atlas

How The Law Decides
Sign In
Text size
100%
Theme
Codes

Constitution of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

National Constitutions of Africa and the Middle East

Citation Formats

General Reference

APA Style

BibTeX

The Constitution of the Democratic Republic of the Congo was approved by referendum and promulgated on 18 February 2006 by President Joseph Kabila, becoming the country's sixth constitution since independence in 1960. It divides the country into twenty five provinces plus the capital city of Kinshasa, mandates political pluralism and explicitly bars a one party system, and guarantees registered political parties access to public electoral subsidies. Title II sets out a bill of civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, restricts marriage to opposite sex unions, and treats citizenship as exclusive rather than permitting dual nationality; the national motto it enshrines is Justice, Peace, Work.

Comments (0)
No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.
Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)
No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.

View At A Past Year

The atlas records no dated fact of its own for this entry, so there is no other year to choose.