Instrument of Government (1634)

Axel Oxenstierna, Lord High Chancellor of Sweden and architect of the 1634 Instrument of Government.

The Instrument of Government (Swedish: regeringsform) of 1634 was a document describing the form and operation of the Swedish government, retrospectively regarded as the country's first constitution, although it was not intended to function as such.[1] It was composed by the Lord High Chancellor, Axel Oxenstierna,[2] and was adopted by the Riksdag of the Estates (Swedish Parliament) on 29 July 1634.[3] It was rendered void when the Riksdag repudiated it in 1680.[4]

  1. ^ Regeringsformen, Nordisk Familjebok (1915), p.1207 (in Swedish)
  2. ^ "Axel Oxenstierna". ne.se (in Swedish). Nationalencyklopedien. Retrieved 4 July 2009.
  3. ^ http://sv.wikisource.orgview_html.php?sq=Qlik&lang=&q=Regeringsform_1634 Regeringsform 1634
  4. ^ Åberg (1994), p. 111