[2] The Danish constitution was finally altered to its present form following a 1953 referendum.

The two primary changes in the proposed constitution from 1939 were lowering the electoral age from 25 to 23 years, and replacing the Landsting with a new chamber of parliament, the Rigsting.

[4] The united parliament would handle the more important types of bills, including the budget and proposed changes to the constitution.

[4] This would have been a simplification of the existing process where all bills had to go through three readings in each of the two chambers.

While the result was overwhelmingly in favour of the proposed change, this only had the support of 44.5 per cent of the electorate, falling just short of the 45 per cent threshold required for any constitutional change to come into force.