Repräsentierte Freiheit
Die kleineren Reichsstände auf dem Reichstag
Abstract
At the imperial diets of the early modern period, the emperor and the corpus of the imperial estates represented the free people, the German nation. This dual representation led to division of powers and mostly consensual decisions. Using the example of the Wetterau Association of Imperial Counts and the free imperial cities, it is explained that the smaller imperial estates put up with the high costs of sending a delegation to the imperial diet to document and represent their independent rule and thus their imperial immediacy as part of German liberty in this political arena. They could see themselves as co-representatives of the sovereign, of ...
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