Show the swedes and their government the government governa ent of sweden has bag passed after repeated fluctuations between absolute monarchy and the predominance of the aristocracy into a limited monarchy but hereditary in the bulale m ale aie line of the reigning family which failing falling the king with the consent of the people may nominate a successor the kin kingas aa well as the member members of his hi 3 council must be of the lutheran religion which is also established the creed of uie yie realm the civil list for the maintenance of the king kiny and his household is in about that of the crown prince about a thir the ile royal prerogative extends over the foreign relations of the kingdom both as ta peace and war over the administration of justice the com command commandos mandof mandot of the tha army and navy ravy an and the appointment of arch archbishops bishops bie ble hops hopa and judges who are remarkable only for misconduct the kin ein eing king has a veto on the enactments of the legislature j ure are the executive is divided into departments the heads of which may be summoned before the council to give their advice on matters within their departments the swedish legislature or diet is composed of four dif dit different orders of society the nobility clergy burghers and peasants each has a separate house of estate of the legislature and no bill can pasa pa even with the r royal assent unless it has received the sanction of three out of the foar four houses the ale house of nobles is composed of the heads of each of the noble families that of the clergy consists of the twelve bishops with the archbishop of upsala kupsala at their head and sixty deputies elected from tha var various loiis dioceses the deputies from I 1 the towns are 97 07 in number and those from the country districts both re requiring rin a small property qualification the nobility maintain themselves the members of thep theather the ather ther three houses are maintained by their constituents the civil and military employees of government form a large majority of the representatives the four orders deliberate sometimes together sometimes separately in the former case questions are carried by a simple majority the diet meets every fifth year or oftener if convened by the king anil and sits for three months unless the pressure of busi busl business nips requires a longer sitting the national chr character acter of the people is remarkable lir for simplicity in manner dress and f feeling eeling they are hospitable and industrious their honesty is remarkable as is shown by the fact that charity boxes are fixed up by the way side not one of which has ever been known to be plundered doors are constantly left on oa the latch horse stealing and sheep stealing are unknown the no population is between three and foar four millions it increased wonderfully under bernadotte whose wise rule had also the effect of doubling the commerce of sweden while he patronized every species of improvement constructed canals erect erected ed schools and did all that could be done to promote the cause of education the tha naval and military force has never been large larger the latter never amounting to more than men the original inhabitants were a colony of fins from the banks of the volga and the vicinity of mount caucasus who were expelled by the hordes of germans three centuries before the christian era or became amalgam cited with them the present swedes are arc of teutonic or gothic origin to together ether with the dines and norwegians Norwegia ns afe the revenue is small fallin falling on each lid iid individual at the rate of two dollars and a quarter a head and anil the national debt which at one time was was many years ago reduced to a little more than five millions chronicle |