Rigsdagen
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The Rigsdag ( ) was the name of the national legislature of Denmark from 1849 to 1953.
Key facts
- Legislature.name
- Rigsdagen
- Legislature.legislature
- Denmark
- Legislature.coa_pic
- National coat of arms of Denmark.svg
- Legislature.coa_res
- 100px
- Legislature.house_type
- Bicameral
- Legislature.houses
- FolketingLandsting
- Legislature.succeeded_by
- Folketing
- Legislature.election3
- January 6, 2015
- Legislature.members
- 225 voting members 76 Landsting 149 Folketing
- Legislature.house1
- Landsting
- Legislature.house2
- Folketing
- Legislature.first_election1
- 1849 Danish Landsting election
- Legislature.first_election2
- 1849 Danish Folketing election
- Legislature.last_election1
- 1953 Danish Landsting election
- Legislature.last_election2
- 1953 Danish Folketing election
- Legislature.meeting_place
- Copenhagen, Denmark
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- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 1953-06-22
- inception
- 1849-00-00
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The Rigsdag ( ) was the name of the national legislature of Denmark from 1849 to 1953.
The Rigsdag was Denmark's first parliament, and it was incorporated in the Constitution of 1849. It was a bicameral legislature, consisting of two houses, the Folketing and the Landsting. The distinction between the two houses was not always clear, as they had equal power. In 1953, a new constitution was approved by referendum and adopted, with the result that the Rigsdag and the Landsting were eliminated in favor of a unicameral legislature under the name of the Folketing. The Rigsdag, like today's Folketing, sat in Christiansborg Palace in the centre of Copenhagen.