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assembly. Only one of the members of the council, the minister for
the navy, J. L. Johansen, advised sanction. When the Storthing
was informed of the refusal of the sanction, it voted, on the
9th June, that the resolution should nevertheless «come into force
and be inviolably observed as a fundamental law of the kingdom
of Norway.» The resolution was again sent up to the government,
«with a request that it might be made known in the manner
prescribed for the notification of constitutional measures.» But the
government refused to notify it. In the autumn of 1880, Fr. Stang
was replaced as prime minister by Christian August Selmer; but
the struggle was continued, and during the period that followed,
several fresh matters for dispute arose. In 1882, the government
refused to comply with a vote to the National Rifle Associations
(volunteer sharp-shooter corps of a democratic stamp), and when,
not long after, the Storthing resolved that a central board should
be established for the government railways, and added the clause
that two of its members should be chosen by the Storthing, the
government only complied with the first part of the resolution,
but not with the last, as it was considered to be at variance with
the king’s right to appoint public officers.
When the Storthing was dissolved in 1882, sharp attacks
were directed, in the speech from the throne, against its
attitude, and «all enlightened and patriotic men» were called
upon to support the view of the constitutional questions that the
government had tried to urge. The participation in the elections
in the autumn was greater than ever, and the parties had never
opposed one another so sharply as in the assembly of 1883. While
the partisans of the government were only 32 in number, the
opposition numbered 82 men, and occupied all the places in the
Lagthing (one section of the Storthing, which together with
«Høisteret» forms the Supreme Court for political offences). On the
24th April, 1883, after violent debates at 18 sittings, the
Odelsthing decided that the entire government should be impeached for
having been the cause of the royal resolutions by which sanction
was refused to the resolution in the matter of the council, to
the vote to the National Rifle Associations, and in a measure
to the resolution relating to the central management of the
railways. In 1884, the «Rigsret», which sat for more than 10 months,
sentenced the state ministers Selmer and Kjerulf and six of the
councillors to be deprived of their posts; while three who had
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