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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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- bicameral legislature
- Has part
- Folketing
- Country
- Danish Realm
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- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 1953-06-22
- inception
- 1849-00-00
- applies to jurisdiction
- Danish Realm
- replaced by
- Folketing
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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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Rigsdagen” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.