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CONSTITUTION.
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ever, is but seldom exercised nowadays: there have been but l’ive cases since
1865.
The King- shares the legislative authority with the Riksdag. He
possesses the right of absolute veto, which, however, is very seldom
exercised. The King has, moreover, one sphere of legislation of his own
— that which is called Administrative and Economic Legislation —
embracing not merely instructions or regulations for public offices and
institutions but also ordinances referring, within certain limits defined by
common practice, to the public economy and to industries.
Riksclag (Parliament) Buildings, Stockholm.
The Riksdag retained its four-chamber composition in 1809. Its
defects were, it is true, clearly seen; but in the critical condition of the
kingdom it was thought too venturesome to tackle the complicated
problem of fixing a fresh basis of representation. The matter was thus for
a time left open, and from 1830 onwards it was repeatedly brought up and
discussed. In 1848, the Government brought in a bill for reforming the
representation, but it was rejected in the following Riksdag. After
another decade had passed, the question was taken up again; and in 1862
the Cabinet, whose leading man was the Minister of Justice, Baron Louis
De Geer, formulated a new proposal, which was at length definitively
adopted in December 1865. In the following year (22 June 1866) the
new Organic Law for the Riksclag came into force. In 1909 there was
carried through a far-reaching alteration of the franchise for the Second
(lower) Chamber in which all property qualifications were removed; and
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