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The German Bundesrat ( German: [ˈbʊndəsˌʁaːt] ⓘ, lit. 'Federal Council') is a legislative body [a] that represents the sixteen Länder (federated states) of Germany at the federal level (German: Bundesebene ). The Bundesrat meets at the former Prussian House of Lords in Berlin.
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The Bundestag ( German pronunciation: [ˈbʊndəstaːk] ⓘ, "Federal Diet ") is the German federal parliament. It is the only federal representative body that is directly elected by the German people, comparable to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom.
Germany is a democratic and federal parliamentary republic, where federal legislative power is vested in the Bundestag (the parliament of Germany) and the Bundesrat (the representative body of the Länder, Germany's regional states).
Bundesrat, (German: “Federal Council”), one of the two legislative chambers of the Federal Republic of Germany. It is the Upper House and acts mainly in an advisory capacity, since political power resides in the popularly elected Bundestag, but its consent is required for a large number of laws and regulations as well as for constitutional ...
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The Bundesrat has three central functions within this system, which provides for division of power and combined fulfilment of the tasks incumbent on the state: It defends the interests of the Länder vis-à-vis the Federation and, indirectly, vis-à-vis the European Union.
In line with the principle of the division of powers, the Bundestag is the highest organ of the legislative in Germany. Alongside it stand the Federal Government, representing the executive, and the federal and Land courts, representing the judiciary.
