The German government

1.)BASIC LAW:
Germany is governed under a BASIC which was introduced on May 23, 1949 for the former FRG (West Germany) and later done better several times. The Basic Law, which describes the country as a “democratic federal state based on social justice”, resembles the constitution of the Weimar Republic (1919-1933) but allows a greater range of authority to the governments of the länder.

From 1969-1989 East Germany was governed under a constitution that defined the country as a sovereign socialist state in which all political power was exercised by the working people. The 1968 constitution guaranteed to the SED a leading role in national affairs, and its general secretary, as head of the party’s political bureau was the most powerful person in the country.
Because of the expansion that the FRG went together with the former East German republic on October 3,1990, West Germany’s Basic Law was extended to cover the unified country.

1.1) Basic knowledge:
The division...