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kBte In m tiW 60 fcf 6 feftiii ! g \ M kmtnW j ^ ert ^ Mi £ M that it has the adVattla £ 6 of poiteessitig sihgufaHy ftee political instittiticjns . Jbihed with Svvgdeft Utidei- dne tfaoridtch , it h&i & coiidtftutibri peeCiIiafr to Uself , which w&s established iti tlte yeafr 1814 . The pttkl ^ ioria of this adtnitttble ttidk enatiied td Tftffway &n eleettee franchise tltt feft Extended badis , Arid a Stot *
thitfgy 6 f putliaineht , elected and assembled every thfree years > pog « ewin ^ extetifeiVe pdWetS ; Such a ^ the Imposition of ta ^ cU . the eftacttafcnt , rep ^ iaf , of alteration of law ^ , the appointment &nd ddjAiini ^ tratidri bf the h * Venile , the fegulatidti of the CUtrerib ^ the e * afniiiatton of all tfeattes , the powet of ittipeachihgal l tttifiigters of state , judges , or its own members , and the privilege , to ^ gelhei * trith Swedeti , of electing a tlfe # dyrtaisty in ca ^ e dfa failure of the tdy&i line . Tlie king * d sanction is retjiitfed to alt iU eddctxfa € * ht ^ , ivith the following itnpottattt eiceptiofa . When a bill h £ t « passed ih three Successive Stofthin ^ s , it becomes law totffe
but his atoeni . The Stofthirig is divided Jrtto tvrb houses ; but as no hereditary peerage , and ihdeed no privileged clafts ^ hatife * fcr eiistd in the country , the upper house is composed sitripty df one ftnirth of the ld ^ ef , chosen by the rtietnbefd themselves the whole body , so constituted , must consist of not less tftati
seventy-fire , nor more than one hundred members * The qurilifieatHyn ^ both fdr electors and representative ^ depends of ! pt&L p ^ rty ; bttt it is low , ftiid , in c < rtiseGiiehcc of the difftisi&n of pfbi tierty atndn g the people , Confer ^ the pHvJlefge dn hefttly all df thfcttK provided , ndweVet , that , ih order td b $ elieibw as &
rtptkhmtative i a man be thirty years of age , and have resided ten years in the country . l"he members of the legislature arc paid during their session . From an analysis of the Storthing elected daring Mr Laing ' s residence , it appe&rS to have eon * sisted of twenty-two persons in civil offices , three in military ^
sixteen in clerical ( of whom four were parish clerks ) , font lawyers , fourteen mercantile ttien ^ and thirty-seven land ( -oWtierS , of Whom the great majority were of the class Called € bonder /* that is , proprietors simply of the farm on which they live . There is no restriction whatever on the press in Norway .
There is an established church , but no state clfcrgy ; for the priesthood have no privileges peculiar to themselves , are repTe * Rented exactly like the rest of the population and as rio dititnt is known iti the country , they assume no superiority over any class .
The forms of justice are extremely simple , and the jud ge * are responsible for their de 6 isions < * Having shortly stated these most important and dtetingttlftfc ing characteristics of the Norwegian institutions , as they may be collected from the work before frs , we ate the better enabfe 4 to direct the attention of our readers to the eofldittott 8 f fllft
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1836, page 655, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2663/page/3/
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