Roskilde University Liberal Senate The Danish Landsting of 1849 Christiansen, Flemming Juul Published in: Reforming Senates Publication date: 2019 Document Version Publisher's PDF, also known as Version of record Citation for published version (APA): Christiansen, F. J. (2019). Liberal Senate: The Danish Landsting of 1849. In N. Bijleveld, C. Grittner, D. E. Smith, & W. Verstegen (Eds.), Reforming Senates: Upper Legislative Houses in North Atlantic Small Powers 1800-present (pp. 61-74). Routledge. 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Oct. 2021 Reforming Senates This new study of senates in small powers across the North Atlantic shows that the establishment and the reform of these upper legislative houses have followed remarkably parallel trajectories. Senate reforms emerged in the wake of deep political crises within the North Atlantic world and were influenced by the comparatively weak positions of small powers. Reformers responded to crises and constantly looked beyond borders and oceans for inspiration to keep their senates relevant. Nikolaj Bijleveld, historian, is a staff member at the University of Groningen. Colin Grittner teaches Canadian history in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and has held postdoctoral fellowships at the University of British Columbia and the University of New Brunswick. David E. Smith is a former president of the Canadian Political Science Association and the author of a number of books on the Canadian Parliament and Canadian federalism. 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British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A catalog record for this book has been requested ISBN: 978-0-367-33968-5 (hbk) ISBN: 978-0-429-32311-9 (ebk) Typeset in Times New Roman by Apex CoVantage, LLC Contents List of figures viii List of contributors ix Preface xi KAREL DAVIDS Reforming senates in the post-revolutionary North Atlantic world: an introduction 1 NIKOLAJ BIJLEVELD AND WYBREN VERSTEGEN PART I The need for a senate (c. 1790–1870) 13 1 Senates and bicameralism in revolutionary Europe (c. 1795–1800) 15 JORIS ODDENS 2 The rise and fall of the quasi-bicameral system of Norway (1814–2007) 29 EIVIND SMITH 3 Members of the Senate in the Southern Netherlands (Belgium) between restoration and revolution (1815–1831) 43 ELS WITTE 4 A liberal senate: the Danish Landsting of 1849 60 FLEMMING JUUL CHRISTIANSEN 5 The Senate of Canada: renewed life to an original intent 75 DAVID E. SMITH vi Contents PART II Democracy, the people and the Senate (c. 1848–1935) 89 6 Constitutional conservatism, anti-democratic ideology, and the elective principle in British North America’s upper legislative houses, 1848–1867 91 COLIN GRITTNER 7 Aristocratic populism: the Belgian Senate and the language of democracy, 1848–1893 106 MARNIX BEYEN 8 Rejecting the upper chamber: national unity, democratisation and imperial rule in the Grand Duchy of Finland, 1860–1906 116 ONNI PEKONEN 9 The Swedish Senate, 1867–1970: from elitist moderniser to democratic subordinate 133 TORBJÖRN NILSSON 10 The Senate and the ‘Social Majority’: Joannes Theodorus Buys (1826–1893) and a ‘Meritocracy’ in the Netherlands (1848–1887) 146 WYBREN VERSTEGEN 11 The Irish Senate, 1920–1936 154 JOHN DORNEY PART III Does a state still need a senate? (c. 1920–present) 171 12 The vitality of the Dutch Senate: two centuries of reforms and staying in power 173 BERT VAN DEN BRAAK 13 Marginalising the upper house: the Liberal Party, the Senate and democratic reform in 1920s Canada 188 ADAM COOMBS Contents vii 14 Vocational voices or puppets of the lower house? Irish senators, 1938–1948 202 MARTIN O’DONOGHUE 15 The rise and fall of bicameralism in Sweden, 1866–1970 216 JOAKIM NERGELIUS 16 Unicameralism in Denmark: abolition of the Senate, current functioning and debate 225 ASBJØRN SKJÆVELAND 17 Precarious bicameralism? Senates in Ireland from the late Middle Ages to the present 239 MUIRIS MACCARTHAIGH AND SHANE MARTIN 18 Founding principles, constitutional conventions and the representation of Francophones living outside Quebec – the Canadian Senate since 1867 255 LINDA CARDINAL Appendix 268 Index 269 Figures 17.1 Reasons given for not voting in the Seanad referendum in Ireland 248 17.2 Reasons given for not voting in the Seanad referendum in Ireland. 249 17.3 Reasons given for having voted to retain the Seanad in Ireland 250 18.1 Senatorial nominations of Francophones living outside Quebec under successive Prime Ministers since 1867 261 Contributors Marnix Beyen is Professor of History and a member of Power in History – Centre for Political History at the University of Antwerp. Nikolaj Bijleveld, historian, is a staff member at the University of Groningen Business School. Bert van den Braak is Professor of Parliamentary History and Parliamentary System at Maastricht University and a researcher at the Montesquieu Institute, The Hague. Linda Cardinal holds a Research Chair in Canadian Francophonie and Public Policies at the University of Ottowa. Flemming Juul Christiansen is Associate Professor in Politics and Public Administration at Roskilde University. Adam Coombs is a PhD candidate in Canadian history at the University of Brit­ ish Columbia. Karel Davids is Emeritus Professor of Economic and Social History of the facul­ ties of Humanities and the School of Business and Economics at Vrije Univer­ siteit Amsterdam. John Dorney is a historian of the Irish revolutionary period, 1919–1924. Colin Grittner teaches Canadian history at McGill University. Muiris MacCarthaigh is Senior Lecturer in Politics and Public Administration at Queen’s University Belfast. Shane Martin is Anthony King Professor in Comparative Government at the University of Essex. Joakim Nergelius is Professor of Legal Theory at Örebro University. Torbjörn Nilsson is Professor of History at Södertörns Högskola. Martin O’Donoghue lectures in modern Irish history and public history at the University of Limerick. x Contributors Joris Oddens is a postdoctoral researcher on political culture and parliamentary history at the University of Padova and a guest researcher at the Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands. Onni Pekonen has specialised in parliamentary history and politics and works as a specialist on EU affairs at the Finnish prime minister’s office, Helsinki. Asbjørn Skjæveland is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Sci­ ence, Aarhus School of Business and Social Sciences, Aarhus University. David E. Smith is Adjunct Professor, Politics and Public Administration, Ryerson University. Eivind Smith is Professor