German Federal System
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QUESTION:
DISCUSS THE GERMAN FEDERAL SYSTEM
The German Federalist political system in my opinion is very beneficial to the German people. It has been in existence for more than fifty years and has proved to be the most adequate concept for the German nation. I will now proceed to examine the origins and structure of the system and I will then discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the system in my conclusion.
It would be helpful to give you a brief education into the history of Germany and how the German Federal System originated.
In the early history of the region, German tribes came repeatedly into conflict with the Romans and after the collapse of the Roman Empire, they overran the Rhine, which had been it s northern frontier. Loosely unified under the Holy Roman Empire during the Middle Ages, the multiplicity of small German states achieved real unity only with the rise of Prussia and the formation of the German Empire in the mid-nineteenth century. After being defeated in the First World War, Germany was taken over in the 1930s by the nazi dictatorship, which led to a policy of expansionism and eventually to complete defeat in the Second World War. Germany was occupied for a time by the victorious allies, during which it was partitioned. The western part of Germany, which was occupied by the United States, Britain and France, became the Federal Republic of Germany, with its capital in East Bonn. German federalism was re- established in West Germany following the defeat of Hitler and thus, the creation of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1949...