On taking office the president must take the following oath, stipulated by Article 56 of the Basic Law, before the assembled members of the Bundestag and Bundesrat ( however he or she is permitted to omit the religious references if so desired ):

The 16 federal States of Germany ( Länder ) are represented by the Bundesrat at the former Prussian House of Lords, whose members are representatives of the respective Länder's governments and not directly elected by the people.

Bundesrat members are not elected — either by popular vote or by the state parliaments — but are delegated by the respective state government.

Against all other legislation the Bundesrat has a suspensive veto ( Einspruch ), which can be overridden by passing the law again, but this time with 50 % plus one vote of all Bundestag members, not just by majority of votes cast, which is frequent in daily parliamentary business.

The delegates to the original Bundesrat as those to the Reichsrat, while appointed by the state governments just as today, usually were high-ranking civil servants, not cabinet members.

Representatives of the city participated as non-voting members in the West German Parliament ; appropriate West German agencies, such as the supreme administrative court, had their permanent seats in the city ; and the governing mayor of West Berlin took his turn as President of the Bundesrat.

A join committee (" Gemeinsamer Ausschuss ") comprises members of both Bundestag ( two thirds ) and Bundesrat ( one third ).

The German Bundesrat is composed of members of the cabinets of the German states, in most cases the state premier and several ministers ; they are delegated and can be recalled anytime.

The second federal legislative body, the Bundesrat, cannot be dissolved, as its members are the federal states ' governments as such rather than specific individuals.

* the German Bundesrat, where voters elect the Landtag members, who then elect the state government, which then appoints its members to the Bundesrat

The Federal Council or executive ( Bundesrat ) consisted of seven members elected by the Federal Assembly.

The parliament has one chamber — the Bundestag ( or Federal Diet ); the Bundesrat, or Federal Council, represents the regions and is not considered a chamber as its members are not elected.

Two-thirds of this Joint Committee are members of the Bundestag and the other third are members of the Bundesrat.

* To convene the Bundesrat and the Reichstag ( Article 12 ); the convocation of the Bundesrat was required to take place as soon as demanded by one-third of its members ( Article 14 ).

He promised nearly 200 Democratic county committee members at the meeting in the Puddingstone Inn: `` When I come back here after the November election you'll think, ' You're my man -- you're the kind of governor we're glad we elected ' ''.

The bicameral Parliament consists of the Senate ( seventeen-member body appointed by the Governor General ) and the House of Representatives ( seventeen seats ; members are elected by proportional representation to serve five-year terms ).

The House of Representatives has 18 members, elected for a two year term, 17 in single-seat constituencies and one by a public meeting on Swain Island.

The Senate also has 18 members, elected for a four year term by and from the chiefs of the islands.

The newly elected abbot was to put off his shoes at the door of the church, and proceed barefoot to meet the members of the house advancing in a procession.

Unlike a parliament, the assembly's members were not elected, but attended by right when they chose.

The ACT Chief Minister ( currently Katy Gallagher, Australian Labor Party ) is elected by members of the ACT Assembly.

Council members are elected to four-year terms, staggered every two years.

Since the Plebeian Aediles were elected by the Plebeians ( commoners ), rather than by all of the People of Rome ( Plebeians as well as members of the Patrician aristocracy ), they were not technically magistrates.

The Board of Trustees and Advisory Council are elected by ARIN members for three-year terms.

The advisory council consists of 15 elected members:

Five members are elected from individual districts and two are elected at-large.

Former MSI members were however still the bulk of the new party and former MSI leader Gianfranco Fini was elected leader of the new party.

The Head of Government under the new constitution is the Premier ( prior to the new constitution the office was referred to as Chief Minister ), who is elected in a general election along with the other members of the ruling government as well as the members of the opposition.

The Legislature consists of the Queen ( represented by the Governor ) and a unicameral House of Assembly made up of 13 elected members plus the Speaker and the Attorney-General.

The Chair of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina rotates among three members ( Bosniak, Serb, Croat ), each elected for a rotating 8-month term within their 4-year term as a presidency members.

The three members of the Presidency are elected directly by the people with Federation voters electing both the Bosniak and the Croat, and Republika Srpska voters electing the Serb.

The National Assembly has 57 elected and 4 appointed members ; it is expanded following each census ( every 10 years ).

The advisory House of Chiefs represents the eight principal subgroups of the Batswana people, and four other members are elected by the subchiefs of four of the districts.

The Bundestag members are the only federal officials directly elected by the public ; the Bundestag in turn elects the Chancellor and, in addition, exercises oversight of the executive branch on issues of both substantive policy and routine administration.

In the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America ( ELCA ) and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada ( ELCIC ), the largest Lutheran Church bodies in the United States and Canada respectively and roughly based on the Nordic Lutheran state churches ( similar to that of the Church of England ), bishops are elected by Synod Assemblies, consisting of both lay members and clergy, for a term of 6 years, which can be renewed, depending upon the local synod's " constitution " ( which is mirrored on either the ELCA or ELCIC's national constitution ).

Further, they opposed the creation of an electoral college to elect the leader of the Party, who had previously been elected by members of the Parliamentary Labour Party – in particular, the arrangement of block voting by constituency parties and trade unions, with the total votes of a constituency party or trade union being given to a candidate based on a first-past-the-post within that CLP or union, or changed at the discretion of delegates ( similar to primary elections in the United States ).

Greg rumbled down the rough metal taxi strip, and one by one the seven members of his flight fell in behind him.

It is testimony to the deep respect in which Mr. Eisenhower was held by members of all parties that the moral considerations raised by his approach to the matter were not explicitly to be broached.

The ontological status of society thus is constituted by the psychological status of society's members.

Aroused by what they considered an evil influence, some members of the clergy, joined by city authorities, merchants, and master craftsmen, began the attack on the plays and the actors for what they called `` the abuses of the art '', but by 1582 some of them began to denounce the whole idea of acting.

In all the talk of feudal rights, the knights and bishops must never forget the woolworkers, nor was it easy to do so, for all along the road to Italy they passed the Florentine pack trains going home with their loads of raw wool from England and rough Flemish cloth, the former to be spun and woven by the Arte Della Lana and the latter to be refined and dyed by the Arte Della Calimala with the pigment recently discovered in Asia Minor by one of their members, Bernardo Rucellai, the secret of which they jealously kept for themselves.

The next step awaits approval today by the Metro commissioners as the members of the Dade County Port Authority.

But the guilt is shared by the United States, Britain and France, the other members of the atomic club.

In the same period, 431 presentations by members of the staff were made to local, national, and international medical groups.

The letters home, the talks later given by returning members of the Peace Corps, the influence on the lives of those who spend two or three years in hard work abroad -- all this may combine to provide a substantial popular base for responsible American policies toward the world.

This organization will differ from existing assistance programs in that its members will supplement technical advisers by offering the specific skills needed by developing nations if they are to put technical advice to work.

At December 13, 1960 the fund held by the Industrial National Bank of Providence, as trustee for payment of past and future service pensions to qualified members of the plan, totaled $2,412,616.

In addition to the many appearances of these organizations throughout the college year, there are concerts by students of the music department, by members of the music faculty, and by visiting artists.

The sermons are given by the College Chaplain, by members of the faculty, or by guest preachers.

These services at which attendance is voluntary are led by the Chaplain, by the President of the College, by selected faculty members, students, and visitors.