- The
Rigsdag (Danish: Rigsdagen) was the name of the
national legislature of
Denmark from 1849 to 1953. The
Rigsdag was Denmark's
first parliament, and...
- the
Folketing was the
lower house of the
bicameral parliament called the
Rigsdag until 1953; the
upper house was the Landsting. It
meets in Christiansborg...
- legislation. The
Constitution of 1849
established a
bicameral parliament, the
Rigsdag,
consisting of the
Landsting and the Folketing. The most
significant change...
- The
Landsting (Danish: Landstinget) was the
upper house of the
Rigsdag, from 1849
until 1953, when the
bicameral system was
abolished in
favour of unicameralism...
- 1816, and with the
constitution of 1849, it
gained representation in the
Rigsdag.
During World War II, the
Faroe Islands were
occupied by the
United Kingdom...
- of most of the
hereditary peers) had
considerably more.
Until 1953, the
Rigsdag in
Denmark was
divided into two houses, the "Folketing" and "Landsting"...
- Aschehoug, p. 109. ISBN 87-11-11652-8. Andersen,
Holger (1953). "Den
danske rigsdag og det
interparlamentariske arbejde" (in Danish) in Fabricius, Knud; Bomholt...
-
political representation when they were
allocated two
seats in the
Danish Rigsdag; the Løgting
itself was
reinstated as an
advisory body to the
amtmand in...
- the
dissolution of both the
Folketing and the
Landsting to
allow a new
Rigsdag to make the revisions. However, as this was
during World War I, no campaigning...
-
meaning diet or conference; the
German word
Reichstag and the
Danish Rigsdag are cognate. The
Oxford English Dictionary traces English use of the term...
