Comitial rights

As Komitialrechte ( Latin iura comitialia ) are sovereign rights referred to the Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire only in cooperation with the Reichstag could exercise. In contrast, there are other sovereign rights (the so-called imperial reservation rights ), in the exercise of which the head of the empire was either not restricted ( iura caesarea reservata ) or whose exercise was tied to the consent of the elector ( iura caesarea reservata limitata ).

The comitial rights comprised the most important sovereign rights and government matters of the empire. They were officially listed for the first time - albeit not in full - in the Peace Treaty of Westphalia . The following sovereign rights had to be negotiated by the entire Reich, i.e. all imperial estates invited to the Reichstag , and the emperor:

• Imperial legislation (without the right of proposition )
• Jurisprudence of the Reich Chamber of Commerce
• Tax collection
• Decision about war and peace
• Alliance and Foreign Policy

Decisions that affected the Reich as a whole were also generally subject to the approval of the Reichstag. In 1711 the decision about the imperial ban was also a comitial right.

See also

• Reservation Rights (Holy Roman Empire)

literature

• Helmut Neuhaus : The Empire in the Early Modern Age . Munich, Oldenbourg 2003, ISBN 3-486-56729-2 .