Imperial Diet

Imperial Diet means the highest representative assembly in an empire, notably:

• the historic institution of the Imperial Diet (Holy Roman Empire), either the estates (ranking noble and clerical Princes and cities) in the Holy Roman Empire
• the parliament of the German Empire (Reichstag)
• the parliament of the Weimar Republic (Reichstag)
• the parliament of Nazi Germany (Reichstag)
• Today, in Germany, the two chambers of parliament are called the Bundestag and the Bundesrat.
• the Swedish Riksdag
• the parliament of Finland
• the legislature in Japan from the promulgation of the Meiji Constitution in 1889 until the 1947 Constitution of Japan replaced the Imperial Diet with National Diet of Japan.

See also: Diet (assembly)