IMPERIAL DIET

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

★ the historic institution of the ''Reichstag'', 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

★ Today, in the Federal Republic of Germany, the two chambers of parliament are called the Bundestag and the Bundesrat.

★ the legislature in Japan from the promulgation of the Meiji Constitution in 1889 until the 1947 "MacArthur" Constitution replaced the Imperial Diet with the democratically elected National Diet of Japan.

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