14/11/10

Today in Human Geography class Mr. Schick tell us a really bad new: we have a test about 13 country on Wednesday. This is a bad new for me.

Here is my note:

Germany

• Germany is a federal republic – a federation state
• The federal government has the ultimate sovereignty
• Leader is Chancellor Angela Merkel since November of 2005
• She is the first female president in Germany
• Every 4 years a chancellor
• Every 5 year a president
• The new election for chancellor will occur in 2007
• The federal republic can be impeached by the Bundetag

France

• France’s government is a republic
• They had a monarchy with a King and Queen until 1792. In 1789 the French Revolution made
• Francois Hollande has been in office since May 15th  2012. Francois has been serving for 2 years.
• Impeachment is a process where an official is accused of unlawful activity, and can now be taken out of office
• Impeach in France since 2002
• The president used to be able to serve a 7 year term that number changed to a 5 year term in 2000

United state

• Leader: Barack Obama
• He can be president for 2 year
• Impeachable offenses
• Treason
• Bribery
• High Crimes
• Not enforcing the low of the US, or the country
• Thing a president cannot get impeached for
•  Pisliking the president
•  Disagreeing with the president
• Andrew Johnson was impeached on February 24, 1868
• Frderal Republic
• Have a central Federal Government location
• Are part demoeraoy and mostly republic
• Elect a president every four years
• Each president is allowed to serve as president for 2 term (8 year)

Russia

• Is a Federal presidential Republic run by Vladimir Putin and Dhirtry Medvedev
• started in 1991
• power is split up between prime minister and president
• Served as prime minister from 1999-2000
• Medvedev was the 10th prime minister of Russia
• Contain 69 state
• 5 federal services and 30 government agencies
• Vladimir Putin was a president from 2000-2008
• Way to get rid of the leader: overthrow the leader, assassination, start a revolution, impeachment, protest, vote a third party candidate

Syria

• Has a republic under Bashar al-Assad president
• He terms are 7 years long and has served 2
• Syria is a republic and does have elections but they are rigged
• Bashar al-Assad has been lead by June 20th, 2000
• He has been elected twice in a rigged election
• In Syria the first time he was elected 
• No other way than assassination because he uses chemical warfare and violence against his own people

Japan

• Has been around since 660 B.C
• Has a parliamentary government with a constitutional monarchy Emperor Akihito and Prime Minister
• Akihito is the reigning Emperor of Japan
• He acceded to the throne in 1989
• They also have a Prime Minister
• Abe was Japan's first Prime Minister born after WWII
• was re elected in December 2012

Brazil

• has been a federal republic since 1988
• Dlima Rousseff was elected on Oct 31, 2010
• She was then re-elected on Oct 26, 2014
• Is expected to stay in office for the next 4 years until the next elected
• Some way that people have the ability to change leader:
• Impeach Rposseff
• Kill the president
• Press charge and bring her in front of another kind of government

Canada

• a parliamentary democracy, a federation, and a constitutional monarchy
• The monarch is the head of state, but they have a constitution giving them the right to elect their own government
• Prime Minister Stephen Harper has announced a new "family tax cut," a version of the family income-splitting promise he made during the 2011 federal election, along with increases to monthly child care benefit cheques and to the amount taxpayers can deduct for child care expenses.
• Canada is a federation of ten provinces  and three territories.
• Covering most of the northern part of the North American continent and with an area larger than that of the United States, Canada has an extremely varied topography.
• Their government has been under constitutional monarchy since April 17, 1882.
• In 1931, Canada became one of the Commonwealth Countries.
• There was a period of time when Canada was under British rule.
• In 1931, The statute of Westminster will be upgraded to dominion of Canada have diplomatic and military autonomy, but still be attributed to king name (such as the royal Canadian army)
• Stephen Harper has been in power for eight years and he started in January 23, 2006.
• He has been a member of Parliament since 2002.
• He is also the 22nd Prime Minister of Canada
• He get re-elected in September, 2008.
• It is expected that Stephen Harper will stay in power past 2015
• He is also expected to be Prime Minister for a decade
• People say that Stephen Harper can’t be impeached
• It was discovered that he can be because Canada has the same government as England
• Impeaching a leader has worked in England so that’s why they think Harper can be impeached
• Many people have protested for Harper to be out of office in Canada
• He has been in office for eight years but some people have protested against him

And I found something just now. That is, I fail the subject again. The reason is, I had not did my blog in week 9. OMG！！！