Administration
Under the 1951 constitution (approved in 1952), Jordan is a limited
monarchy.The Jordanian monarch is chief executive and head of state
and shares executive power with a prime minister and other cabinet
members who are responsible to the parliament. The monarch may declare
war, conclude peace, and convene, adjourn, and suspend the lower
house of the legislature.
Jordan is divided into eight administrative districts, or governorates,
each headed by a governor appointed by the monarch. Three former
governorates, comprising what is now the West Bank, were occupied
by Israel in 1967; their administrative links with Jordan were severed
by King Hussein in 1988. Jordan's nomadic population is administered
separately.
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