Germany vs.

America
Cheyenne Lupole
Type of Government / Constitution

Germany America

Title of Leader Chancellor President

Name of current leader Angela Merkel Trump

Elected or Appointed Elected Elected

Length of term in office 5 year term 4 year term

Background/Qualifications At least 18 years of age Must be 35 years or older

No other office position a resident within the U.S. for
required A natural born citizen 14 years
No criminal record a natural born citizen
No criminal record
Germanys Chancellor Americas President

Angela Merkel Donald Trump

Law Making
Germany America

Name of Law Making body The German Bundestag Executive Branch

Bicameral or Unicameral Bicameral Bicameral

Number of seats 631 seats Currently 535

 Most Important Rights

Germany America

Do they have Freedom of No Yes

Speech / Press?

Do they have Freedom of Yes Yes

Religion?

Do they have Right to Bear No Yes

Arms?

Are they protected from No Yes

cruel and excessive
punishment?
Political Parties
Germany America

Two-party, one-party, or Multiparty System Two-Party System

multiparty system
Name: Germany Name: America

Social Unity Party of Germany Democrat

Christian Democratic Union or Christian Republic

Social Union
Key Belief: Protestant and Catholic are the
Key Belief: Christianity, Lutheran- two major religions.
Protestantism, Calvinism, and Roman
Catholic
Elections and Voting

Germany America
Qualifications to vote
Qualifications to vote
18 years of age
18 years of age
Have completed obligatory police
U.S. citizen
registration procedure to vote
Holds every four years
Holds Federal Elections every five years
Primary and General
Primary
Taxes and Finance America
Do they charge income tax?
Do they charge income tax?
You pay an income tax throughout the year
You pay income tax out of every
paycheck
Other ways they make money
Other ways we make money
Sales tax is already in the included in the
price
We have to pay for college
Foreign tax credit, housing exclusion and
earned income exclusion Military

$1,676 billion
Military

$39. 4 billion Education

$51,000 per student roughly

Education

$43,000 per student roughly Healthcare

Germany
Healthcare $9,451
 Crime rates Crime rates

Gun Crime: 15th in the world

Law Gun Crime: 1st in the world

Murder: 29th in the world Murder: 9th in the world

Rapes: 5th in the world Rapes: 1st in the world

Prison population Prison population

77,166 people 2,220,300 people

Punishments Punishments

Forbids capital punishment Capital punishment is used

Germany
Court system rates Court system rates America
Judiciary Judicial branch, The Constitution, and
United States law
Relationship with Germany and America today
Germany is one of our closest allies outside the European Union. We see each
other as reliable allies but disagree on some parts.