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ANCIEN RéGIME In the feudal society, the formal class system was reflected in the composition of the state's 'representative' assembly ( The States ), regardless of its name well described as Estates : it was not intended as an elected reflection of the public opinion, but a fixed expression of the established power as recognized in formal privileges, including the right to seat in person (granted to many aristocrats and prelates, as well as certain cities) or be represented as elector in o college that is entitled to one or more seats. In some of the German States that were known as ''Land'', the name of such estates assembly was Landtag, analogous to the '' Reichstag '' (imperial Diet, mainly comprising most princes of church and hereditary states plus the Imperial Cities). The precise composition obviously varied greatly, and could change over time, as the result of privileges granted or lost, entities split or merged, border changes etcetera. As Austria and Prussia escaped the French 'exporting the revolution', and Napoleon was happy to maintain satellite monarchies in most German territories under his control (members of the Confederation Of The Rhine ), the more democratic principles of the Enlightenment would have less effect in the German-speaking lands, or only much later. Austrian Crown lands MODERN FEDERAL ENTITIES In constitutive states of the Federal Republic of Germany and Austria , and in Italy's autonomous (ethnically largely Germanic) South Tyrol , a Landtag is a Unicameral Legislature for a Federal Land . Until 1999 , the large Freistaat Bavaria had a bicameral legislature, with a lower house called the Landtag, and an upper house called the Senate. Not all states of Germany have a body called the Landtag: in the City State s of the legislature is either called ''Abgeordnetenhaus'' -in Berlin - or, in those of Hamburg and Bremen , ''Bürgerschaft''. Similarly, the Landtag of the Austrian capital Vienna is identical to its Gemeinderat , as the city is a State and a Municipality at the same time. List of German State Legislatures
List of Austrian State Legislatures In most cases, these are the 'democratic' successors to the Landtag of the corresponding imperial Kronland .
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