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
• 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.

See also: Diet (assembly)

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