France Switzerland The United Kingdom USA Spain Germany Forms of government

France The French Republic is a semi-presidential republicsemi-presidential It has a strong democracy traditions

Semi-presidential It is a system of government in which a president and a prime minister are both active participants in the administration of the state.

Switzerland It is an old federal governaments It is an original example of Direct democracy The Swiss Confederation consists of 26 cantons cantons

Cantons A canton is a type of administrative division of a country Cantons are small in terms of area and population

The United Kingdom It is an exmple of parlamentary and democracy The United Kingdom is a constitutional monarchyconstitutional monarchy

Constitutional monarchy A constitutional monarchy is a form of constitutional government, where either an elected or hereditary monarch is the head of state Most constitutional monarchy have a parliamentary system in which the monarch is the head of state, but an elected prime minister is head of government.

USA It is a constitutional republicrepublic It si composed by fifty states It is structured as a rapresentative democracyrapresentative democracy

Spain Spain is a constitutional monarchy, with a hereditary monarch and a bicameral parliament Spain is politically organized into 17 autonomous communities

Germany Germany is a federal, parliamentary, representative democratic republicfederalparliamentary The German political system operates under a framework laid out in the 1949 constitutional document known as the Grundgesetz (Basic Law).

Federal Federal republic is a federation of states with a republican form of government. A federation is the central government. The states in a federation also maintain the federation.

Parliamentary Parliamentary systems are characterized by no clear-cut separation of powers between the executive and legislative branches,

Representative Democracy Representative democracy is a form of government founded on the principle of elected individuals representing the people

Republic Republic is a state or country that is not led by a hereditary monarch The people have an impact on its government The word 'republic' is derived from the Latin res publica which can be translated as "public thing".

Democracy Democracy is a form of government in which state-power is held by the majority of citizens.