constitution,
in English translation, is printed in Dodd, Modern
Constitutions, I., 267-281; H. Weitemeyer, Denmark
(London, 1891), 203-217; and British and Foreign
State Papers, LVIII. (1867-1868), 1,223 ff. The
best brief treatise on the Danish constitutional
system is C. Goos and H. Hansen, Das Staatsrecht
des Koenigsreichs Daenemark (Freiburg, 1889), in
Marquardsen's Handbuch. A Danish edition of this
work was issued at Copenhagen in 1890. The best
extended commentaries are H. Matzen, Den Danske
Statsforfatningsret (3d ed., Copenhagen, 1897-1901)
and C. G. Holck, Den Danske Statsforfatningsret
(Copenhagen, 1869). T. H. Aschehoug, Den Nordiske
Statsret (Copenhagen, 1885) is a useful study, from
a comparative point of view, of the constitutional
law of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden.]

III. THE CROWN AND THE MINISTRY

*615. The King: Status and Powers.*--The form of the Danish government
is declared by the constitution to be that of a limited monarchy.[788]
The throne is hereditary, and the succession is regulated by a law of
July 31, 1853, adopted in pursuance of the Treaty of London of May (p. 560)
8, 1852, wherein the powers bestowed the Danish succession upon Prince
Christian, of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Gluecksburg, and the direct
male descendants of his union with the Princess Louise of Hesse-Cassel,
niece of Christian VIII. of Denmark.[789] By the constitution it is
required of the king that he shall not become the ruler of any country
other than Denmark without the consent of the Rigsdag, that he shall
belong to the Evangelical Lutheran Church (the national church of
Denmark, supported by the state), and that before assuming the throne
he shall give in writing before the Council of State an assurance,
under oath, that he will maintain inviolate the constitution of the
kingdom.[790] The royal civil list is fixed by law for the term of the
reign. That of the present sovereign, Frederick VIII., is one million
kroner annually.

[Footnote 788: Art. 1. Dodd, Modern Constitutions,
I., 267.]

[Footnote 789: Prince Christian became, in 1863,