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 Bundestag (Germany) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It was established with Germany's constitution of 1949 (the Grundgesetz), and is the successor of the earlier Reichstag.
The Bundestag members are the only federal officials directly elected by the public; the Bundestag in turn elects the Chancellor and, in addition, exercises oversight of the executive branch on issues of both substantive policy and routine administration.
With the new constitution of 1949, the Bundestag was established as the new (West) German parliament.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundestag   (1815 words)

  
 GERMANY
The Bundestag elects a member of the strongest political party in that house to be federal chancellor, the head of the government.
Half of the judges are appointed by the Bundestag and half by the Bundesrat.
Bundestag deputies and an equal number of electors selected by German state legislatures elect the president to a five-year term.
http://www.gauravhira.freehomepage.com/germany.htm   (12123 words)

  
 Bundesversammlung (Germany) - definition of Bundesversammlung (Germany) in Encyclopedia
The last assembly of the Bundesversammlung was held on May 23 2004, when Horst Köhler was elected as the new Bundespräsident by the slight majority of 604 out of 1205 votes.
The Federal Convention (Bundesversammlung) is a special body in the institutional system of Germany, convoked only for the purpose of selecting the Bundespräsident every five years, in all years ending in "4" or "9".
It is chaired by the Speaker of the Bundestag and is dissolved once the elected president declares that he accepts his election, which decision he can delay for up to two days (however, no president ever did so).
http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Bundesversammlung_(Germany)   (303 words)

  
 Politics of Germany Online Research :: Information about Politics of Germany
The Chancellor of Germany (Federal Chancellor) heads the Cabinet of Germany (Federal Cabinet) and thus the executive branch of the federal government.
The Bundesrat (Germany) (Federal Council) is the representation of the state governments at the federal level.
By contrast, the duties of the President of Germany (Federal President) are largely representative and ceremonial; power is exercised by the Chancellor.
http://in-northcarolina.com/search/Government_of_Germany.html   (2680 words)

  
 Germany on Encyclopedia.com
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.
Executive authority lies with the federal government, whose leader, the federal chancellor, is elected by an absolute majority of the Bundestag for a four-year term.
However, the revolutionists were soon defeated, and the Frankfurt Parliament, having failed to obtain the unification of Germany under Frederick William IV, disbanded.
http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/section/germany_history.asp   (3148 words)

  
 Germany - Simple English Wikipedia
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.
Germany is where many people important in culture were born: composers such as Beethoven, Bach, Brahms, and Wagner; poets such as Goethe and Schiller; philosophers including Kant, Hegel, Marx and Nietzsche; and scientists including Einstein, Born and Planck.
http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany   (1738 words)

  
 Election Resources on the Internet: Elections to the German Bundestag
The Parliament of the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) consists of a lower house, the Bundestag, whose members are directly elected by universal adult suffrage, and an upper house, the Bundesrat, composed of representatives appointed by the Länder.
Allocation of Seats in the 1998 Bundestag Election
Allocation of Seats in the 2002 Bundestag Election
http://electionresources.org/de   (2640 words)

  
 Germany (11/05)
The Bundestag (lower, principal chamber of the parliament) elects the chancellor.
The number of seats in the Bundestag was reduced to 598 for the 2002 elections.
The 2005 federal elections were held after Chancellor Schroeder asked for a Bundestag "vote of confidence" in the SPD-Greens coalition.
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/3997.htm   (5875 words)

  
 Germany - encyclopedia article about Germany.
Germany is a democratic federal parliamentary nation, made up of 16 federal states (Länder or, more commonly, Bundesländer), which in certain spheres act independently of the Federation.
Horst Köhler Horst Köhler(, born 22 February 1943) is the President of Germany.
Germany and Berlin were occupied and partitioned by the Allies into four military occupation zones – French in the southwest, British in the northwest, United States in the south, and Soviet in the east.
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Germany   (7509 words)

  
 wikien.info: Main_Page
It was established with Germany's constitution of 1949 (the Grundgesetz), and is the successor of the earlier Reichstag.
Bundespräsident (President of the Federation) is the German language title for: The President of Austria (head of state)The President of Germany (head of state)The President of the Swiss Confederation: the presiding member of the Swiss Federal Council (government and head of state): This is a ..
redirect[[Template:Politics of Germany]] The Bundesrat ("federal council") is the representation of the 16 Federal States (Bundesländer) of Germany at the federal level.
http://www.hostingciamca.com/browse.php?title=B/BU/BUN   (7457 words)

  
 Germany - Atlapedia Online
In October 1993 the Bundesbank's president Helmut Schlesinger was succeeded by Hans Tietmeyer and Germany became the last of the 12 EU members to complete the ratification of the Maastricht Treaty after the constitutional court had rejected several objections.
On June 26, 1992 the Bundestag voted to extend the former East Germany's liberal abortion rules, allowing for on demand abortion within the first 3 months of pregnancy, to the whole of Germany.
On May 26, 1993 Bundestag deputies were jeered by thousands of protesters as the government parties finally ended years of arguments and agreed to amendments to the constitution that tightened Germany's open-door policy on foreign asylum seekers.
http://www.atlapedia.com/online/countries/germany.htm   (2988 words)

  
 Grundgesetz -- German Constitution (May 23, 1949--Last amended August 31, 1990; English translation)
Half of the members of the Federal Constitutional Court are elected by the Bundestag and half by the Bundesrat.
(1) The scrutiny of elections is the responsibility of the Bundestag.
It is convened by the President of the Bundestag.
http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/eurodocs/germ/ggeng.html   (17280 words)

  
 ISN Security Watch - Germany, Austria, Slovakia approve EU treaty
A total of 569 members of the Bundestag, Germany’s lower house of parliament, voted in favor of the constitution, with 23 voting against and two abstentions.
ISN SECURITY WATCH (13/05/05) - Germany’s Bundestag on Thursday voted in favor of the EU constitution, bringing to eight the number of member countries that have ratified the document, after the Austrian and Slovakian parliaments had approved the treaty the day before.
The draft of the EU constitution was agreed on in Brussels on 18 June 2004 and signed by the bloc's 25 heads of state in Rome at the end of last year.
http://www.isn.ethz.ch/news/sw/details_print.cfm?id=11280   (616 words)

  
 Chancellor of Germany - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This was the case with Chancellor Gerhard Schröder from 1999 until he resigned the chairmanship of the SPD in 2004.
Chancellor Ludwig Erhard had the largest cabinet, with twenty-two ministers in the mid-1960s.
The chancellor's authority emanates from the provisions of the Basic Law and from his or her status as leader of the party (or coalition of parties) holding a majority of seats in the Bundestag (federal parliament).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chancellor_of_Germany   (1413 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Baden
The highest spiritual authority of Catholic Baden is the Archbishop of Freiburg, who is also Metropolitan of the province of the Upper Rhine; he is a member of the First Chamber of Baden, ranks immediately after the ministers of state, and enjoys the title of Excellency.
With the death of Augustus George (1761-71), who by papal dispensation had left the ecclesiastical state, and who founded many religious institutions, the line of Baden-Baden became extinct, and the succession fell to the Baden-Durlach branch.
In Baden, by the order of the Grand duke, the candidate for the archiepiscopal see was elected by free vote of the assembled deans (1822), but their choice of Wanker, a professor of theology in Freiburg, was condemned by the pope as canonically invalid.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02194a.htm   (1413 words)

  
 Stephen Roth Institute: Stephen Roth Institute: Antisemitism And Racism
Several elections took place in Germany on 13 June 2004: the European Parliament elections (which are the only nationwide elections between the two federal general elections); state parliamentary elections in Thuringia; and communal elections in 6 of the 16 German federal states.
In 2003 the DVU had members in two state parliaments, Bremen (1) and Brandenburg (5), and gained 8.1 percent of the municipal vote in Bremerhaven on 28 September 2003, thus increasing its electoral strength by almost 3 percent, mainly because of first-time voters.
In January 2001 the Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe confirmed that an application to outlaw the NPD – comprising 73 files – had been lodged.
http://www.tau.ac.il/Anti-Semitism/asw2003-4/germany.htm   (4938 words)

  
 Germany - encyclopedia article about Germany.
Germany is a democratic federal parliamentary state, made up of 16 federal states (Länder), which in certain spheres act independently of the Federation.
Germany has a civil or statute law system based ultimately on Roman law.
Germany is a constitutional federal republic, whose political system is laid out in the 1949 constitution called Grundgesetz (Basic Law).
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Germany   (4938 words)

  
 Bundestag elections drive Germany into political chaos - Pravda.Ru
The Party of Democratic Socialism, the reformed successor of Germany's old communists, received over eight percent of votes in the elections and overcame the five-percent limit.
According to the results of an opinion poll conducted in Germany, 53 percent of respondents said that they would vote for Schroeder, if it were possible to elect the chancellor directly.
Western Germany has already experienced such a situation in 1966, when a CDU candidate Kurt George Kiesinger became the German Chancellor, whereas Social Democrat Willy Brandt took the position of the Vice Chancellor and headed the Foreign Affairs Ministry of Germany.
http://english.pravda.ru/world/20/91/365/16156_Bundestag.html   (1201 words)

  
 Germany
Germany Bans Far-Right Marches," Washington Post, 13 August 2000.
ROGER COHEN, "Germany's Foreign Minister Urges European Federation," New York Times, 15 May 2000.
Germany renames a military base for a WWII soldier who saved Lithuanian Jews and was executed for it.
http://www.iup.edu/politicalscience/courses/ps280/H-germa1.htm   (1706 words)

  
 Bundesrat of Germany - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The chairperson or speaker is the President of the Bundesrat (Bundesratspräsident).
The Bundesrat ("federal council") is the representation of the 16 Federal States (Länder) of Germany at the federal level.
The President of the Bundesrat convenes and chairs plenary sessions of the body and is formally responsible for representing the Federal Republic in the Bundesrat.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundesrat_of_Germany   (1255 words)

  
 History of Baden, Wuerttemberg, Baden-Wuerttemberg
The constitution of 1919 resulted in annual election of a member of the regional parliament to the state presidency, at the head of the regime (of Baden).
As a result of the referendum of December 6, 1951, Baden was absorbed into the new state of Baden-Württemberg on April 25, 1952.
As a result of a referendum held on the Dec. 6th 1951 both zones and the French zone of Baden were merged into the state of Baden-Württemberg.
http://www.genealogienetz.de/reg/BAD-WUE/hist.html   (1255 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: States of Germany
Saarland is one of the 16 states of Germany.
Germany is a federation of 16 states called Länder (singular Land) or Bundesländer (singular Bundesland).
The Bundesrat (federal council) is the representation of the 16 Germany at the federal level.
http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/States-of-Germany   (1151 words)

  
 Germany: Map, History and Much More From Answers.com
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.
In the late 1960s, diplomatic contacts with West Germany were initiated; these culminated in 1973 with the signing of a treaty between the two states.
http://www.answers.com/topic/germany   (9142 words)

  
 Elections in Germany - definition of Elections in Germany in Encyclopedia
Elections in Germany gives information on election and election results in Germany, including elections to the Federal Diet (the lower house of the federal parliament), the Landtage of the various states, and local elections.
The election period is generally four to five years, and the dates of elections vary from state to state.
An election is a process in which a vote is held to elect candidates to an office.
http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Elections_in_Germany   (441 words)

  
 Centre Party (Germany) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Centre Party, whose pragmatic principles generally left it open to supporting either a monarchical or republican form of government, proved one of the mainstays of the Weimar Republic, continuing the cooperation with SPD and DDP in the Weimar Coalition.
The German Centre Party (Deutsche Zentrumspartei or merely Zentrum), often called the Catholic Centre Party, was a Catholic political party in Germany during the Kaiserreich and the Weimar Republic.
In the subsequent elections, the Centre Party campaigned on two fronts, against both the Papen government and National Socialists and reaffirmed their stance as the "constitution party" opposed to "any measure contrary to consitution, justice and law" and "unwilling to yield to terror".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre_Party_(Germany)   (5322 words)

  
 Politics of Germany - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Liberals, Greens, conservatives and the far left were the winners of the European election in Germany, because voters were disillusioned by high unemployment and cuts in social security, while the governing SPD party seems to be concerned with quarrels between the party wings and unable to give any clear direction.
Half an hour after the election results, the SPD chairman Franz Müntefering announced that the chancellor would clear the way for premature federal elections by the means of a purposely lost vote of confidence.
The first state election after the federal election was held in Hessen in February, 1999.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_Germany   (2812 words)

  
 Royal Family of Europe - pafg05 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Charles Louis Frederick OF MECKLENBURG was born in 1708 in,, Germany.
Ferdinand OF SAXE-COBURG [Parents] was born in 1785 in Saxe-Coburg, Germany.
He married Sofie Antonie Princess Of BRUNSWICK-WOLFENBhUTTEL in 1749 in Wolfenbhuttel, Braunschweig, Germany.
http://www.ishipress.com/royalfam/pafg05.htm   (3618 words)

  
 Cabinet of Germany - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It consists of the Chancellor and the cabinet ministers.
The Cabinet of Germany (German: Bundeskabinett, Bundesregierung) is the chief executive body of the Federal Republic of Germany.
The details of the cabinet's organisation are set down in articles 62 to 69 of the Basic Law.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabinet_of_Germany   (307 words)

  
 Germany - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Germany is a democratic federal parliamentary nation, made up of 16 federal states (Länder or, more commonly, Bundesländer), which in certain spheres act independently of the Federation.
Germany has a civil or statute law system based ultimately on Roman law.
Germany is divided into sixteen federal states (in German called Bundesländer, singular Bundesland; though the correct constitutional term is Länder, singular Land).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany   (5965 words)

  
 Germany Info: Government & Politics: Officials & Institutions
The five constitutional bodies of Germany are the Bundestag and Bundesrat with responsibility for legislation, the Federal Constitutional Court with responsibility for supreme court decisions, and the Federal President and the Federal Cabinet with responsibility for the executive.
The Bundesrat represents Germany's sixteen states, and its consent is needed for the enactment of legislation affecting the states.
The Bundestag is responsible for making and changing laws as well as for electing the chancellor.
http://www.germany-info.org/relaunch/politics/officials/officials.html   (120 words)

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