Riksdag of the Estates

The Swedish stands the Reichstag ( Ståndsriksdag ) was the meeting of the representatives of the four estates ( nobles, priests, burghers and peasants ) in Sweden until 1866. He goes back to the old Germanic Thing gatherings and was next to the king the highest constitutional institution of the empire, entered however, usually only every three years. It was chaired by the District Marshal, who came from the knighthood. When the decision was the principle of majority rule, so that a decision could be taken only when three of the four estates voted in favor.

Important meetings

• The assembly of the states in 1435 in Arboga, became the Empire Captain elected at the Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson is commonly regarded as the first Swedish Reichstag; However, there is no evidence that even the state of the farmers had already participated.
• The stands the Reichstag of 1517 decided, at the urging of the Regent Sten Sture and the Imperial Council, the Archbishop of Uppsala, Gustav Trolle, discontinued. This decision, which was affirmed by the Council members by Siegel served later as evidence in the massacre of Stockholm and eventually led to the dissolution of the Kalmar Union.
• In the stands the Reichstag in 1527 in Västerås in Sweden the Lutheran Reformation was introduced on the initiative of Gustav I Vasa.
• At the Diet of 1544, again in Västerås, the Swedish krona in the family Gustav Vasa I. was made hereditary.
• The Riksdag of 1595 in Söderköping chose the Protestant Duke Charles as regent to secure the retention of the Lutheran confession. Four years later, the Catholic King Sigismund was deposed and Charles as Charles IX. elected king.
• The Assembly of 1612 decided on the chancellor Axel Oxenstierna pressure, all high offices of state to transfer only members of the aristocracy
• In the stands the Reichstag of 1650, the first open conflict between the stalls occur.
• The Reichstag of 1680 decided on a broad recovery in favor of the crown, the assigned in the previous decades to the nobility land ownership.
• On the diets of 1719 and 1720 they used stands the unclear succession ratios after the death of Charles XII. , To enforce a new constitution, which transferred the Empire sized Estag the sole legislation.
• The stands the Reichstag of 1809 graduated from Gustav IV Adolf and his descendants from the succession, and instead chose his uncle Charles as king, but only after he had a new, adopted by the Reichstag stands Act of Succession, the Successionsordningen agreed.

Resolution

When stands the Reichstag from 1865-1866 voted all four estates of the resolution and the simultaneous construction of the new Reichstag, which operated until 1971 as a two -chamber parliament.