Imperial Diet means the highest representative assembly in an empire, notably:
- Imperial Diet (Holy Roman Empire), general assembly of the Imperial Estates of the Holy Roman Empire (962–1806)
- Reichstag (German Empire), Parliament of the German Empire (1871–1918)
- Reichstag (Weimar Republic), Parliament of the Weimar Republic (1918–1933)
- Reichstag (Nazi Germany), Parliament of Nazi Germany (1933–1945)
- Parliament of Finland
- Parliament of Sweden
- Diet of Japan, convened as the Imperial Diet under the Meiji Constitution (1889–1947)
Famous quotes containing the words imperial and/or diet:
“Their bodies are buried in peace; but their name liveth for evermore.”
—Apocrypha. Ecclesiasticus, 44:14.
The line “their name liveth for evermore” was chosen by Rudyard Kipling on behalf of the Imperial War Graves Commission as an epitaph to be used in Commonwealth War Cemeteries. Kipling had himself lost a son in the fighting.
“Newsmen believe that news is a tacitly acknowledged fourth branch of the federal system. This is why most news about government sounds as if it were federally mandated—serious, bulky and blandly worthwhile, like a high-fiber diet set in type.”
—P.J. (Patrick Jake)