Imperial Diet means the highest representative assembly in an empire, notably:
- Imperial Diet (Holy Roman Empire), general assembly of the Imperial Estates of the Holy Roman Empire (962–1806)
- Reichstag (German Empire), Parliament of the German Empire (1871–1918)
- Reichstag (Weimar Republic), Parliament of the Weimar Republic (1918–1933)
- Reichstag (Nazi Germany), Parliament of Nazi Germany (1933–1945)
- Parliament of Finland
- Parliament of Sweden
- Diet of Japan, convened as the Imperial Diet under the Meiji Constitution (1889–1947)
Famous quotes containing the words imperial and/or diet:
“When your fathers fixed the place of GOD,
And settled all the inconvenient saints,
Apostles, martyrs, in a kind of Whipsnade,
Then they could set about imperial expansion
Accompanied by industrial development.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)
“Television programming for children need not be saccharine or insipid in order to give to violence its proper balance in the scheme of things.... But as an endless diet for the sake of excitement and sensation in stories whose plots are vehicles for killing and torture and little more, it is not healthy for young children. Unfamiliar as yet with the full story of human response, they are being misled when they are offered perversion before they have fully learned what is sound.”
—Dorothy H. Cohen (20th century)