Subalpine Chamber of Deputies

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The Subalpine Chamber of Deputies was the lower house of the parliament of the Kingdom of Sardinia, serving as a key constitutional and legislative body in the period leading up to Italian unification.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Subalpine Chamber of Deputies canonical 1
Subalpine Senate 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf historical institution
legislative body
lower house of parliament
appliesToTerritory Island of Sardinia
linked to: Sardinia

Nice (until its cession to France)
Piedmont-Sardinia
linked to: Kingdom of Sardinia

Savoy (until its cession to France)
linked to: Savoy
associatedWith Camillo Benso di Cavour
Victor Emmanuel II
capitalCityContext Turin
coexistsWith Subalpine Senate
constitutionalBasis Albertine Statute
constitutionalRole key body under the Albertine Statute
country Kingdom of Sardinia
dissolution 1861
governmentFormContext constitutional monarchy
hasParliamentaryChamberType lower house
hasRole representation of (a limited portion of) the Sardinian population
headOfStateDuringExistence King of Sardinia
historicalPeriod Italian unification
Risorgimento
houseType elected chamber
inception 1848
jurisdiction Kingdom of Sardinia
languageOfWorkOrName Italian
legalSystemContext civil law tradition
legislativeFunction participated in the approval of the state budget
passed laws for the Kingdom of Sardinia
shared legislative power with the Subalpine Senate
location Piedmont
meetsIn Turin
meetsInBuilding Palazzo Carignano (historical parliamentary seat in Turin)
linked to: Palazzo Carignano
monarchsDuringExistence Charles Albert of Sardinia
Victor Emmanuel II of Italy
nativeLabel Camera dei deputati subalpina
parliamentarySystemContext bicameral parliament
partOf Parliament of the Kingdom of Sardinia
politicalOrientationContext liberal-conservative dominant elites
precededBy pre-constitutional advisory bodies of the Kingdom of Sardinia
region Subalpine region
replacedBy Chamber of Deputies of the Kingdom of Italy
selectionMethod election by (restricted) male suffrage
significance precursor of the national parliament of unified Italy
significantEvent approved key reforms promoted by Count Camillo Benso di Cavour
played a central role in the process of Italian unification
status defunct legislative body
typeOfRepresentation territorial constituencies
votingSystemContext census-based suffrage

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Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Chamber of Deputies of the Kingdom of Italy precededBy Subalpine Chamber of Deputies
Subalpine Chamber of Deputies coexistsWith Subalpine Senate
linked to: Subalpine Chamber of Deputies