slide 1-Spain is a cons. monarchy in which a monarch(king or queen) acts as head of state within the guidelines of a constitution,the ability to make and pass laws resides with an elected Parliament, not with the Monarch(king or queen).

slide 2-us is a democracy in witch the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections

slide 3-how these governments are alike and dislike-we both follow a constitution

democracy gives supreme power to the people while constitutional monarchy has the parliment  have most of the power

Democracy-people elect officials to represent them

constitutional monarchy-next monarch(king)elected by next in line for the crown they have to be the same kin

Slide 4 -spains cons. was made in 1978 it proclaims Spain to be a social and democratic state governed by law and declares liberty, justice, equality, and political pluralism to be the country's foremost values. National sovereignty resides in the people, from whom all powers of the state emanate. The new Constitution defines Spain as a parliamentary monarchy, with the king as head of state and symbol of its unity and permanence. It establishes a bicameral legislature, the Cortes, and an independent judicial system

slide 5-us cons. was made in March 4, 1789 it proclaims that people have ultimate power and soverignty and they also had the right to elect thesair representatives  it is still to this day the out line to our government.it was made so the us wasent ruled by a monarch (king) becaus that was what every one feared.in addition to the constitution we added a bill of rights witch was ratified in December 15, 1791 it gives the us the rights we have today it also states that we have fredom ,liberty ,equality between each other

slide 6-how the cons. arent alike-the US has a bill of  rights

spain is set as a parliamentary monarchy in witch the parlimet makes all the disitions and monarch is head of state and symbol of its unity and permanence.

US is set as a democracy in witch the people hold ultimate soveregnty(power)

spain's constitution establishes a bicameral legislature, the Cortes, and an independent judicial system

Us'es constitution establishes seperation of power into  3 branches legislative,executive and judicial and each branch has a different job

slide7- spains econymy-spains econymi at this time is not doing so well it is $1.9 trillion dollars in debt just in begining of the year of 2011

Spain is ranked 17th out of 43 countries in the Europe region and it is the 36th largest economy in the world.

if Eu dosnt help spain and its econymy spain wont make it much longer

slide8-US'es economy  isnt doing so good either it is in debt  11.5 trillion dollars this yearthe us owes 2.6 trillion dollars to the people that it borrowed from the irs the rest is owed to forign contrys

us is ranked the tenth larges econymy in the world

slide9-how theyre econimys are alike and unlike-we both owe a  big debt

but us has a bigger det than spain spains bebt compared to ours is nothing we owe 10.6 trilion more dollars than spain

us ranked 10th place and spain is ranked in 36th place whenit comes to their econymis

slide10-Did spain have a dictator-in fact spain did have a dictator his name was Francisco Franco he use to be a grat general for spain but when he was accepted to be the new king of spain. he started showing all the aspects of dictatership when he was chosen for king

he did not allow fair elections and political opposition

he even passed a law that made him head of state for life

but when he died in November 1975, the monarchy was restored when Prince Juan Carlos became head of state

Slide11-spain back then-  the 1600s  was spains golden age it was the super power in europe

spains wealth and military might was based on all the gold and silver its Central and South American colonies brought

back then spain was controled by the catholic church

spain use to own  and mexico until it revolutionized and seperated from spain and in addition texas sepersted from mexico later joining the us

slide12-spain curently-spain is part of the europian union

75% of its citezens live in cities

its population is 46 million

spains king is Juan carlos

slide 13-They have highest number of bars out of all the countries in the EU.

spain is the home of real madrid

Real Madrid is the richest club in the world.

soccer is the most important sport in spain it is like a religeon

 the name Spain diverged from the word Ispania, which means the land of rabbits.