Imperial Diet

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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 (however, the "parliament" did not represent the people, as it was staffed exclusively by NSDAP emissaries; political parties were prohibited and persecuted after the Machtergreifung.)
• Today, in the Federal Republic of Germany, the successor to the aforementioned countries, 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 Diet of Japan.

See also Diet.