Bundestag (Freedom Ascendant)

The Bundestag (German pronunciation: [ˈbʊndəstaːk], "Federal Diet") is a constitutional and legislative body at the federal level in Germany. For its similar function, it is often described as a lower house of parliament along the lines of the US House of Representatives and the Canadian or the British House of Commons. The German constitution, defines the Bundestag and the Bundesrat as the lower and upper houses of a bicameral legislature, called the Reichstag.

The Bundestag was established by Article II of the Constitution for the Federal Republic of Germany in 1949 as one of the legislative bodies of Germany and thus the historical successor to the earlier Reichstag.

Since 1949 it has met in the Reichstag Building in Berlin. Johannes Bulmahn is the current Speaker of the Bundestag. Members (Mitglieder des Bundestages) of the Bundestag are usually elected every four years in alternating classes every 2 years, by all adult German citizens in a system of constituency voting. There are currently 781 seats. The Election Day, however, can be earlier if the Federal Chancellor (Bundeskanzler) loses a vote of no confidence and asks the Federal President (Bundespräsident) to dissolve the Bundestag in order to hold new general elections.

In the 19th century the name Bundestag was the unofficial designation for the assembly of the sovereigns and mayors of the Monarchies and Free Cities which formed the German Confederation (1815–1866). Its seat was in the Free City of Frankfurt on the Main.

Representatives in the Bundestag
Each state has 1 representative for every 178,500 persons, and will always have at least 1 representative in the Bundestag. The current composition is as follows: {{legend|#18FF08|ÖDP: 43 seats}} {{legend|#DE593E|FDP: 157 seats}} {{legend|#223AD5|CDP: 108 seats}} {{legend|#26E009|Familie: 14 seats}} {{legend|#D4E02D|NLP: 207 seats}} {{legend|#E22960|Conservatives: 88 seats}} {{legend|#58016C|Progressives: 79 seats}} {{legend|#CC3184|Farmer's Party: 20 seats}} {{legend|#FA0000|Labor Party: 65 seats}}

The governing coalition is made of at least 391 members, and currently consists of the National Liberal Party, the Free Democrat Party, and the Christian Democrats. The opposition coalition consists of the Labor Party, Farmer's Party, Progressives, Familie, and Greens.

Members of the Bundestag by German State
Based on the 2016 census, with a population of 136,594,493 people, the Bundestag was reallocated to 781 seats in total. It currently allocates seats based on the Schöfferhofer-Limbach method, an independently derived formula that in the US is called the Huntington-Hill method.
 * Alsace-Lorraine (22)
 * Baden (18)
 * Bavaria (104)
 * Berlin (27)
 * Brandenburg (26)
 * Bremen (5)
 * Burgenland (3)
 * Carinthia (5)
 * East Prussia (19)
 * German Bohemia (17)
 * Hamburg (13)
 * Hanover (58)
 * Hesse (45)
 * Lower Austria (13)
 * Lübeck (2)
 * Mecklenburg (13)
 * Pomerania (13)
 * Posen (16)
 * Rhineland (88)
 * Salzburg (4)
 * Saxony (31)
 * Saxony-Anhalt (17)
 * Schleswig-Holstein (21)
 * Silesia (37)
 * Styria (3)
 * Sudetenland (5)
 * Teschen Silesia (6)
 * Thuringia (16)
 * Tirol (10)
 * Upper Austria (11)
 * Vienna (18)
 * Vorarlberg (3)
 * West Prussia (11)
 * Westphalia (62)
 * Württemberg (19)