. Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning. -ernment which hadprevailed before,and like most revo-lutions it ran an ex-travagant course,until Gustavus IVwas almost as abso-lute as any king inEurope. This ledto another revolu-tion and dethrone-ment of the was halfsympathetic withall the s
. Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning. -ernment which hadprevailed before,and like most revo-lutions it ran an ex-travagant course,until Gustavus IVwas almost as abso-lute as any king inEurope. This ledto another revolu-tion and dethrone-ment of the was halfsympathetic withall the storms thatprevailed in Cen-tral Europe duringthe latter part ofthe eighteenthcentury, and herconstitutional con-flicts moved as ifin pace with thoseof the great statesin the center andthe west. Theeffort to make a new constitutional system was in a meas-ure successful. The movement reacheda climax on the 6th of June, 1809. The political system which now con-fronts the inquirer in Sweden gives thewhole executive power to the legislative power is divided between the king and the Riksdag. This meansthat either the king or the Riksdag maytake the initiative in mak- Svipremacy of ing a new law, and either the king; his ir- 1 .-l,^^ . responsibility. he or that body may veto the action of the other. \\\WI////^^^ The laws relating. GUSTAVUS VASA—A ROYAL TYPE. to certain branches of economic mattersare wholly of the Riksdag; but in suchmatters as diminishing the customsduties the king may exercise authorityindependently of the parliament. Hemay declare war or make peace, and virtue of his office commander in 78 GREAT RACES OE MANKIND. chief of the military power of the king--dom. The king is irresponsible. vSofar as responsibility may be defined inlegal form, he is free. Still, he is re-quired to declare his decrees in thepresence of responsible councilors, calledthe Statsrad. The Swedish Council of vState is com-posed of ten members, of whom theThe Council of fiist sc
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