SCOTLAND VS

AMERICA
By: Robert Zilhaver

Leaders
SCOTLAND

1.

Title: First Minister

2.

Current leader: Nicola

Sturgeon

AMERICA

1.
2.
3.
4.

3.

4.
5.

Elected/Appointed:
Appointed by Queen
Length of term: 4 years
Qualifications : NA

5.

President
Barack Obama
Elected
2 4 year terms
Must be 35 and U.S.
citizen

Law Braches
SCOTLAND

1.

2.

3.

Name of the Body

:House of lords
Structure :
Unicameral due to
the queen of
England
Membership: 100

AMERICA

1.

Congress

2.

Bicameral

3.

535

Basic freedoms
SCOTLAND

Limits the Monarch Power

Free election of parliament

AMERICA

Freedom of press

Freedom of assembly

Freedom of petition

Freedom of religion

Freedom of speech
No cruel and unusual
punishment
The right to defend
themselves with in the law

Freedom of Speech

Political Parties
SCOTLAND
1.
2.

3.

4.

Multi-party
SNP(Scottish National
Party) want a bicameral
government and break
away from England.
SLP(Scottish Labor
Party)For the England
partnership works for the
public.
SCP(Scottish Conservative
Party) Loyalist to the
crown

AMERICA
1.
2.

3.

Two-party
Democrats and
Republicans
Democrats focus
more on the
democracies as the
Republicans try to
make it more of a
Republic

Election and voting

SCOTLAND

1.

AMERICA

Voting age:16

types of election
:First Past the Post
(General election)
They have no other due
to they are no longer
their own country.
2.

1.

18

2.

Primary, General,
and Presidental

Taxes
SCOTLAND

AMERICA

1.

Income tax

1.

2.

Make most of the money

from offshore drilling

2.

3.

They give most of there

money to the UK
Military: 2.5 billion euros
Education:2.6 billion euros
Healthcare: 11.1 billion
euros

4.
5.
6.

3.

4.
5.
6.

Income Tax
The number 1 export of
America is their Machines
and engine pumps bring in
around 220 billion dollars
Majority of the money is
used for Social Security
815.5 billion
922.6 billion
1356.1 billion

Law
SCOTLAND

AMERICA
1.

1.

2.
3.

4.

5.

Crime rates:270,397 recorded

crimes
Prison Population: 8,200
Punishments: fines
imprisonment, Scotland has
level starting at level one
paying a 200 euros to a level
5 5,000 euros
Court System: Known as the
Courts of Scotland hold all the
civil to the extreme matters.
against the death penalty

2.
3.

4.

5.

Crimes reported was just

above 300,000
1.35 million
A fine Term of imprisonment
(time in jail or prison) parole
Restitution to victims The death
penalty
highest court is the Supreme
Court and withholds the
constitution and below is the
appeal courts then below that
is involved in civil cases
for the Death Penalty

Relations with U.S.A.

The relations with United States and
Scotland governments are very shaky. They
have difference beliefs with the death
penalty and was brought up in 2008 when
Scotland released a murder(David Maddox).