As a spiritual estate, indeed, it had ceased to exist at the Reformation, though still represented in the Rigsdag or diet.
A candidate for either house of the Rigsdag must have passed the age of twenty-five.
The Rigsdag assembled again at the usual time, the first Monday in October.
When therefore the Rigsdag rejected the budget, he advised the king to issue another provisional financial decree.
Footnote 790: One original text of this pledge must be preserved in the archives of the crown, another in those of the Rigsdag.
