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| | GERMANY - LoveToKnow Article on GERMANY |
 | | The fifty-eight members of the Bundesrat are nominated by the governments of the individual states for each session; while the members of the Reichstag are elected by universal suffrage and ballot for the term of five years. | | | In his office he is assisted by a federal council (Bundesrat), which represents the governments of the individual states of Germany. | | | Waierways.In Germany the waterways are almost solely in the possession of the state. |
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http://81.1911encyclopedia.org/G/GE/GERMANY.htm
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| | Germany. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 |
| | The Bundesrat, the upper house, has 68 seats, with each state seating three to six representatives depending on the state’s population; the term is not fixed. | | | The president is elected for a five-year term by a federal convention, which meets only for this purpose and consists of the Bundestag and an equal number of members elected by the state parliaments. | | | However, the revolutionists were soon defeated, and the Frankfurt Parliament, having failed to obtain the unification of Germany under Frederick William IV, disbanded. |
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http://www.bartleby.com/65/ge/Germany.html
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| | Germany - Simple English Wikipedia |
| | Adolf Hitler became the Head of government, and by the Enabling Act on March 23, 1933, the parliament gave him total control of the country and the government. | | | The people of Germany vote for the parliament, called the Bundestag (Federal Assembly), every four years. | | | This can stop all acts by the law-makers or other leaders if it feels they go against Germany's constitution. |
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http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany
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| | Germany, Federal Republic of |
| | The struggle in Germany was temporarily resolved at Conrad's death by the election of his nephew Frederick, a Hohenstaufen born of a Welf mother. | | | The vote reversed the Bundesrat's 1991 decision to remain in Bonn. | | | The 25 nominally sovereign states (plus Alsace-Lorraine) of the North German Confederation were ruled by a Bundesrat of princes dominated by Prussia and a powerless Reichstag of elected deputies, while the chancellor was responsible only to the emperor. |
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http://www.cartage.org.lb/en/themes/GeogHist/histories/history/hiscountries/G/germany.html
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| | Germany (11/05) |
| | The Bundesrat (upper chamber or Federal Council) consists of 69 members who are delegates of the 16 Laender (states). | | | The highest court is the Bundesverfassungsgericht (Federal Constitutional Court), which ensures a uniform interpretation of constitutional provisions and protects the fundamental rights of the individual citizen as defined in the Basic Law. | | | On May 23, 1949, the Basic Law, which came to be known as the constitution of the Federal Republic of Germany, was promulgated. |
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http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/3997.htm
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| | Wind Energy: More Than Hot Air? Germany Deutsche Welle 12.05.2004 |
| | The Bundesrat, Germany's upper chamber of parliament, is set to debate the amendments to the Renewable Energy Law on Friday. | | | After German Economics Minister Wolfgang Clement and Environmental Minister Jürgen Trittin finally reached a compromise on the long-debated and highly controversial carbon emission cap, the Social Democrats (SPD) and Greens came together again on Friday to pass sweeping new renewable energy legislation despite strong opposition from the Christian Democrats (CDU). | | | But the reworked Renewable Energy Law is supposed to change that, cutting financial backing for windmills on land in favor of windmills in the sea. |
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http://www.dw-world.de/english/0,3367,1446_A_1200256_1_A,00.html
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| | Articles - Upper house |
| | In these systems, the seats are sometimes hereditary, as was the case in the British House of Lords (until 1998), and the Japanese House of Peers (until this house was abolished in 1947). | | | Also, the upper house of many nations is directly elected, but in different proportions to the lower house - for example, the Senates of Australia and The United States have a fixed number of elected representatives from each state, regardless of the population. | | | However, it is also common that the upper house consist of delegates who are indirectly elected by state governments - for example, in the German Bundesrat. |
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http://www.centralairconditioners.net/articles/Upper_house
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| | BBC News EUROPE German Senate backs neo-Nazi ban |
| | Despite the Bundesrat decision to back the NPD ban, Germany's lower house, the Bundestag, may not debate the issue at all. | | | The court could have acted on the application of the cabinet alone, but Mr Schroeder said he wanted to present a united front of cabinet and both houses of Parliament. | | | The upper house of Germany's Parliament, the Bundesrat, has voted to back attempts to ban the far-right National Democratic Party (NPD). |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/1016364.stm
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| | Final Study Guide |
| | Describe the process for electing the Presidents of France, Germany, and Italy. | | | Compare the power and authority of the presidents in France, Germany and Italy. | | | Why did the new government of the Federal Republic of Germany adopt the Grundgesetz (Basic Law) instead of a Verfassung (constitution)? |
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http://www.wtamu.edu/~jrausch/finalsg.htm
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| | Migration News |
| | The 16 state interior ministers and the federal interior minister originally agreed to begin returning 320,000 Bosnians on October 1, 1996, and then postponed returns until April 1, 1997. | | | On April 21, the CDU announced that it opposed the enactment of any immigration law that would make naturalization easier, or explicitly permit dual citizenship, or establish an annual quota for immigrants. | | | Norbert Walter, chief economist for Deutsche Bank, argued in a recent opinion article that the US takes global competition more seriously than Germany because of immigration. |
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http://migration.ucdavis.edu/MN/comments.php?id=1229_0_4_0
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| | Bloomberg.com: Germany |
| | Schroeder said yesterday he'll seek to hold a national election this fall, a year ahead of schedule, after his Social Democratic Party was ousted from power in an election in Germany's most populous state, North Rhine-Westphalia, ending its 39-year rule there. | | | Roland Koch, the Christian Democrats&; prime minister in the state of Hesse and Christian Wulff, the premier of Lower Saxony, said today Merkel will lead the opposition's campaign to unseat Schroeder after 6 1/2 years in office. | | | Merkel's East German origins and gender have raised questions within the CDU and CSU over whether she's the right candidate to attract traditional voters. |
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http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000100&sid=aLN_4iK6STN0
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| | Search Results for 'Bundestag-(Germany)' |
| | It was established with Germany's constitution of 1949 (the Grundgesetz), and is the successor of the earlier Reichstag. | | | Frederick I Barbarossa, (1125-1190), king & emperor Frederick II, (1196-1250), king & emperorThree rulers known as Frederick III -- for reasons for the confusion see Frederick III of Germany. | | | The age of consent was equalized in West Germany in 1989, and in East Germany in 1994. |
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http://www.worldhistory.com/wiki/B/Bundestag-(Germany).htm
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| | Germany Alert |
| | The Bundesrat's action follows on last month's vote in the lower house, the Bundestag. | | | Next stop for the constitutional repeal is Germany's upper house, the Bundesrat. | | | Chancellor Helmut Kohl and his ministers have repeatedly sought to downplay the shocklist of Bundeswehr-Nazi scandals as "isolated incidents." But on Friday (Jan. 16) the military announced it will suspend all "humanitarian help" gifts of vehicles. |
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| | The German Community in Albuquerque, New Mexico |
| | The crowning is presided over by the Elferrat, which is a court of eleven men, and it can only be men, who in Germany were usually wealthy. | | | Although Napoleon was eventually defeated by the combined armies of Germany and Britain, some changes that he imposed upon Germany remained. | | | A government that came to be known as the Weimar Republic was established with a democratically elected president and parliamentary system. |
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| | GUIDE TO LAW ONLINE: Germany |
| | News Bulletins / Pressemitteilungen (Juristisches Internetprojekt Saarbrücken) provides news bulletins in German on the German Federal Constitutional Court and Federal Supreme Courts of Germany. | | | Country Study: Germany (Library of Congress) July 1995 | | | Country Study: East Germany (Library of Congress) July 1987 |
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http://www.loc.gov/law/guide/germany.html
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| | CIA - The World Factbook -- Germany |
| | Federal Constitutional Court or Bundesverfassungsgericht (half the judges are elected by the Bundestag and half by the Bundesrat) | | | elections: Federal Assembly - last held 18 September 2005 (next to be held September 2009); note - there are no elections for the Bundesrat; composition is determined by the composition of the state-level governments; the composition of the Bundesrat has the potential to change any time one of the 16 states holds an election | | | In the short run, however, the fall in government revenues and the rise in expenditures have raised the deficit above the EU's 3% debt limit. |
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http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/gm.html
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| | Central Europe Review - German News Review |
| | In this case, the State of Arizona was accused of failing to counsel two German citizens on their right to legal assistance from the German foreign service before they were executed. | | | The activists call on European governments to make a counter-point to the American conduct by urging diplomatic approaches even vis-à-vis "rogue states." | | | An unusually wide rift between otherwise close allies appeared to open this week when US government lawyers accused Germany, before the United Nations World Court in The Hague, of trying to "undermine the United States' right to exercise the death penalty." |
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http://www.ce-review.org/00/40/germanynews40.html
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| | THE BUNDESRAT - Tasks |
| | Article 53, third sentence of the Basic Law stipulates that the Bundesrat "shall be kept informed by the Federal Government with regard to the conduct of its affairs". | | | The Bundesrat has the "first say" in the parliamentary processing of executive bills, as the Basis Law states that the Federal Government is required to submit its drafts directly to the Bundesrat for comment. | | | All bills adopted by the Bundestag must be forwarded to the Bundesrat by the President of the Bundestag. |
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| | The current Bundesrat (1/1995) is composed of a majority of SPD-led governments, thereby constituting a strong counterweight to the CDU/CSU-led Bundestag. | | | The president of the Bundesrat is the deputy president of Germany. | | | For other laws the Bundesrat has a veto right, which might be overridden in the Bundestag with a two-thirds majority. |
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| | Germany for Kids |
| | Unlike the U.S., however, the Federal Republic has both a president, who acts as head of state, and a chancellor, who runs the federal government. | | | It has a house of representatives, called the Bundestag and a second chamber, called the Bundesrat, which represents Germany's 16 federal states. | | | For many years following World War II, there were two German states. |
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http://www.germany-info.org/relaunch/culture/life/G_Kids/g_in_brief.htm
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| | Foreign Law: Legal Research Resources on the Internet |
| | Institute of East European Law (University of Kiel, Germany; Institut für Osteuropäisches Recht) | | | Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Juristisches Bibliotheks- und Dokumentationswesen (AjBD - Association for Law Librarianship and Documentation in German-Speaking Countries - Austria, Germany, Switzerland; to subscribe to BIB-JUR, send e-mail to | | | Banking Laws (NYU Center for the Study of Central Banks) |
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| | This Greenpeace campaign parallels the German Bundesrat decision to reject the current version of the German gentech law proposal. | | | The proposed penalties range up to Euro 50,000 or a 5-year prison sentence. | | | The Bundesrat rejected the proposed law, which had been drafted by the Green-led Federal Ministry of Consumer Protection, Food and Agriculture (BMVEL), and forwarded it to the Bundesrat/Bundestag Conciliation Committee. |
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| | Re: Time to compose a list of Jewish/non-Jewish companies & politicians |
| | I even think those are delegates and not "directly" elected.) The bundesrat 'checks and balances' laws that influence the coptentence if the state and that are drafted and ratified by the 'Bundestag'. | | | They just make laws ;) The Bundesrat is something similar but quite different from the US Senate ;) (It has representatives from the federal states and eachstate has a fixed number of them. | | | "Willy Wotan" schrieb: >If this was Germany the Bundesrat would have had you in the clink long >ago and locked up and thrown away the key. |
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| | ASU Libraries: Primary Sources in History- Germany |
| | Includes several war diaries by senior officers and party members and documents from the German Foreign Office. | | | Includes private reflections on the war situation; attacks of the U-boat fleet, and Germany's inability to replace lost vessels late in the war. | | | Considerable information on bilateral treaties and political relations with Germany's allies. |
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http://www.asu.edu/lib/hayden/ref/his/primary/germany.htm
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| | Chemical Week: Germany Proposes More Liberal GM Crops Law |
| | Chemical Week: Germany Proposes More Liberal GM Crops Law | | | The Bundesrat, Germany’s upper house of parliament, has voted against draft legislation concerning approval of the commercialization of genetically modified (GM) crops in Germany, and has instead proposed... | | | Subscribe today and ensure that this critical business tool is at your fingertips everyday! |
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| | Germany fails to ban tobacco ads |
| | In Germany, however, the ban is far from becoming law. | | | A bill banning all tobacco advertising introduced by the governing Social Democrats in May is not likely to make it past the Bundesrat, Germany's upper house, which is dominated by opposition parties. | | | Brussels this year required EU member states to pass national legislation by the end of July that prohibits advertising for tobacco products in print, broadcast, and online media. |
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| | BBC NEWS Business German parties agree reform deal |
| | The chamber is dominated by the opposition Christian Democratic Union and its Bavarian sister party, the CSU. | | | Last month, the Bundesrat, where Germany's 16 states are represented, blocked Mr Schroeder's original plans. | | | "It also shows that Germany is able to reform itself and is in a position and ready to retake its role as an economic leader. |
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| | PricewaterhouseCoopers - Germany - Bundesrat Rejects Tax Bills (21/10/2003) from Mondaq |
| | On September 26, the Bundesrat rejected the bills for a tax amnesty and for the 2004 budget measures and severely criticised the trade tax reform and the 2004 federal budget. | | | Three tax bills and the federal budget were four of the items on the Bundesrat's crowded agenda for its regular sitting of September 26. | | | PricewaterhouseCoopers - Germany - Bundesrat Rejects Tax Bills (21/10/2003) from Mondaq |
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| | International Relations and Security Network ISN - Security Watch |
| | Germany: Permanent Mission of Germany to the United Nations | | | This site provides updated information and links concerning Arabic countries and Germany with a special focus on economics and trade. | | | Information on the design and implementation of arms embargoes and travel and aviation-related sanctions in Germany. |
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| | Checkbiotech.org |
| | (The locations of current GM test fields in Germany are a closely guarded secret.) Because the law doesn't directly affect state policy, it does not need the approval of the Bundesrat, Germany's upper house of parliament, which is controlled by the opposition Christian Democratic Party. | | | According to a law passed on 18 June by the Bundestag, farmers and researchers will be liable for any loss of income if a neighbor's produce is contaminated by wayward pollen and can't be certified as "gene-free"--the popular term in Germany for conventional crops. | | | The database will also leave crops open to vandalism, worries Saedler. |
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| | German film funding may be closed off |
| | The paper said the cabinet of German Chancellor Gerhard Schrder may act as early as Thursday to reform German tax law and outlaw the current system of international film financing with German money. | | | COLOGNE, Germany, May 2 (UPI) -- Germany is expected to adopt a new law closing off a major source of international film funding, The Hollywood Reporter said Monday. | | | If the upper house of Germany's legislature, the Bundesrat, approves the measure, Hollywood film producers stand to lose a major source of funding that frequently are indispensable for getting movies made. |
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| | Renkus-Heinz Inc. - Professional Audio Applications - Gouvernment, Institutional |
| | After the decision was made to repatriate all government functions from Bonn to Berlin, the search for suitable venues began in earnest. | | | Architects Schweger and Partners, won the public bidding for the remodelling contract, | | | For the new BUNDESRAT, the historic Herrenhaus offered a possible solution, provided it could be remodeled to accommodate the special Bundesrat requirements, such as additional offices etc. |
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| | Postmuseum / Generalpostamt |
| | Still being German property of state, the question is whether East or West Germany will be the legitimate address. | | | The eight lost mast valuable historic stamps of the museum collection turn up in Philadelphia/USA. |
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http://www.bundesrat.de/schaufenster/en/postmuseum.html
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| | CRL - Germany |
| | This set reproduces U.S. military intelligence reports held by the U.S. National Archives. | | | This microfiche edition was prepared from copies dispersed throughout a number of repositories in Germany because the original archive was lost. | | | NSDAP Hauptarchiv : Guide to the Hoover Institution microfilm collection. |
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| | Imperial Diet - Psychology Central |
| | the historic institution of the Reichstag, either the estates (ranking noble and clerical Princes and cities) in the Holy Roman Empire or after its break-up in imperial, Weimar- republican or nazi Germany, now replaced by Bundestag and Bundesrat | | | Imperial Diet means the highest representative assembly in an empire, notably: |
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http://psychcentral.com/psypsych/Imperial_Diet
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| | Home > Contacts > National Parliaments > Germany > Bundesrat |
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