Monarchy of Norway
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The monarchy of Norway is the system used in Norway by which a hereditary monarch reigns as head of state under a constitutional monarchy with a parliamentary system. The Norwegian monarchy can trace
King Harald receives Norway out of his father's hands in this illustration from the 14th-century Flateyjarbók.
King Frederick III
The Constituent Assembly at Eidsvoll in 1814.
Constitution of Norway
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The Constitution of Norway was adopted on 16 May and signed on 17 May 1814 by the Norwegian Constituent Assembly at Eidsvoll. The latter date is the National Day of Norway; it marks the establishment
The front page of Norway's constitution of 4 November 1814 (Novembergrunnloven), which is in the Storting archives.
Eidsvollsbygningen, the site of the drafting of the Constitution