The Swedish-Norwegian Union Crisis / A History with Documents

This work offers a concise history and documentary record of the political crisis between two united kingdoms, explaining long-term causes, divergent reform programmes, and contested legal interpretations of the union. It traces the development of the consular question, committee deliberations, proposals for identical laws, and the parliamentary and executive exchanges that followed, while reproducing key constitutional acts, memoranda, and official minutes. Accompanied by selected extracts of debates and government correspondence and an authorial commentary reflecting contemporary Swedish perspectives, the volume aims to clarify the sequence of events and the legal and diplomatic arguments that led to the rupture.