The Assembly of Estates (French: Assemblée des États, German: Ständeversammlung) was the legislature of Luxembourg from 1841 to 1848, and again from 1856 to 1868.
The Congress of Vienna awarded the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg to the King of the Netherlands in personal union, as his private property, though it also became part of the German Confederation.
Its powers were highly restricted: it could not take decisions and exercised a purely consultative role alongside the sovereign.
[3] Under the influence of the revolutionary democratic movements in France and the rest of Europe in 1848, the Constituent Assembly wrote a new Constitution for Luxembourg.
This introduced a constitutional monarchy, and gave the legislature, now called the Chamber of Deputies, enhanced powers.
After Luxembourg had been declared independent and neutral in the Treaty of London of 1867, a compromise was found between the liberal constitution of 1848 and the authoritarian charter of 1856.