Imperial Diet

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:

    “The imperial multiplicatornothing can nonplus:
    My mother Nature is the origin of it all.”
    —George Barker (b. 1913)

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    every color and as good as sour balls.
    I’m on a diet from death.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)