Bohemian Diet

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Bohemian Diet Czech: Zemský sněm Království českého German: Landtag des Königreiches Böhmen
Unicameral
History
Founded	6 April 1861 (as a constitutional body)
Leadership
	Supreme Marshal of the Kingdom of Bohemia
	The Deputy Supreme Marshal of the Kingdom of Bohemia
	The Provincial Committee
Seats	214 (until 1848) 241 (from 1861) 242 (from 1882)
Elections
Voting system	Plurality voting (Two-round system)
Last election	The 1908 Provincial Elections
Meeting place

The Bohemian Diet (

In 1471, the Bohemian estates elected the Jagiellon Vladislav II as their king. In 1500, the Land Assembly approved the Vladislav Land Establishment, named after the king, which gave the Bohemian noblemen an extensive share in political co-decision and is also considered to be the oldest written Czech constitution.

The chairman of the assembly was called the

After the defeat of the Bohemian estates in the Battle of White Mountain, Ferdinand II would proclaim in 1627 for Bohemia and 1628 for Moravia the Renewed Regional Code, in which the monopoly position of the states was abolished in favour of the provincial government. Despite these limitations, the Diet and its committees, like the Diets in Austria, remained an effective means of political co-decision. In their meetings, usually once a year, the estates could, through the amount of taxes, resist the lords of the land. All direct and indirect taxes, with the exception of the collection of customs duties, remained within the competence of the estates.^[3]  The Diet was thus a relic of the estate power rather than an absolutist instrument and even by the 1830s, the diet was again a base for organizing the opposition and a place of political friction.^[4]

Only during the reign of Maria Theresa was the strong share of estates in power permanently limited.^[5]

The diet was, with the exception of 1784–88 under Joseph II, held without interruption until 1848.^[6]  At the end of its existence in 1848, the diet had 214 members.

The diet met at Prague Castle until 1801. From 1801 he was based in the Thun Palace in Malá Strana, Prague. This conference location remained the same until 1913. Today the palace is the seat of the Chamber of Deputies of Czechia.

See also

• Czech National Council
• National Assembly (Czechoslovakia)

References