Politics and civics

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Politics and civics

Westminster/Whitehall

• Parliament elections every 5 years
• House of Commons: 650 MPs, representatives of their constituancies (kiesdistricten)
• House of Lords: 800 members (Peers/Life Peers/Lords Spiritual and Hereditary Peers)

Congress

• President elections every 4 years
• House of Representatives (Lower House): 435 members chosen every 2 years
• Senate(Upper House): 100 senators chosen every six years.
• Both houses have meetings in the Capitol.
• Vice-President is the leader of the Senate

Monarchy

Republic

Both countries !

First-past-the-post principle

or 

Winner takes all

Prime Minister (PM)

10 Downing Street

Home Office

Home Secretary

Foreign Office

Foreign Secretary

Chancellor of the Exchequer

Secretary (of State)

Minister (of State) 

Minister-president

Ministerie Binnenl. zaken

minister van Binnenl Zaken

Ministerie van Buitenl. Zaken

minister van Buitenl. Zaken

minister van Financiën

minister

staatssecretaris

President

The White House

Vice-president

Secretary of State

Secretary of Treasury

Attorney General

Cabinet of the US

president

vice-president

minister van Buitenl. Zaken

minister van Financiën 

minister van Justitie

Kabinet van de president

Cabinet of the United States

- How is the Cabinet organised?

- What role do they fulfil?

- How do they  relate to the President?

Time to ask Wikipedia!

• Bonfire/ Guy Fawkes night (5 Nov)
• Armastice/ Remembrance/Poppy Day (11 Nov)
• Bank Holidays (Christian religious days, first and last Monday of May and last Monday of August)

• Independence Day (4. July)
• Labor Day (first Monday of September) 
• Halloween (31 October)
• Thanksgiving Day (4th Thursday of November)

Holidays !!