Quick Answer. Germany's government is a parliamentary system with a democratic constitution based on a division of powers within a federal structure and protection of individual liberty. Executive power is exercised by the chancellor, while the duties of the president are mostly ceremonial.
For other people with the same name, see John Reed (disambiguation). John Silas Jack Reed (October 22, 1887 â October 17, 1920) was an American journalist, poet, and socialist activist, best remembered for his first-hand account of the Bolshevik Revolution, Ten Days That Shook the World. He was married to writer and feminist Louise Bryant.
The third child of John Reed, who found the first gold on the Reed property in 1899, married Martha Love, daughter of Rev. James Love, sometime between 1805 and 1807.