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- Title
Challenges to Economic Orthodoxy And Parliamentary Sovereignty In 18th Century Sweden.
- Authors
Metcalf, Michael F.
- Abstract
This article offers a partial explanation of the collapse of parliamentary sovereignty at the close of Sweden's so-called Age of Liberty (1719-1772). It demonstrates that two orthodoxies-one constitutional and one economic-were firmly established by the 1750s, that challenges to these orthodoxies arose between 1755 and 1765, and that open public debate after 1766 (freedom of the press law) produced challenges not only to these orthodoxies, but to the basic tenets of the social order as well. The collapse of parliamentary sovereignty is attributed in part to its desertion by a nobility which suddenly realized that parliamentary sovereignty made radical socio-political programs possible.
- Subjects
SWEDEN; SOVEREIGNTY; EIGHTEENTH century; SOCIAL history; SOCIOECONOMICS; LEGISLATIVE bodies; SOCIAL order; SOCIAL evolution; PRACTICAL politics; ECONOMICS
- Publication
Legislative Studies Quarterly, 1982, Vol 7, Issue 2, p251
- ISSN
0362-9805
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/439670