Genovian Royal Statute of 1822

The Royal Statute of 1822 was a royal charter of the Kingdom of Genovia under the rule of Mariana Christina, wife of the deceased King Victor Emmanuel III, who ruled as Queen Regent during the infancy of her daughter Queen Victoria Isabella. It came into effect on 10 April 1834. The law created the new Legislature, which was designed as a compromise between the existing Assembly, and a new Bicameral model based on the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

The new Legislature would consist of an upper chamber (whose members would be unelected and instead appointed by the monarch from the nobility, aristocracy and the rich) and a lower chamber which was designed to be an elected body mirroring the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. The Royal Statute was not a Constitution because, amongst other reasons, National sovereignty was not derived from it. Instead, Absolute Sovereignty was invested in the Monarch who could limit or extend their own powers at will, following the model of the Monarchy of the Bourbon Restoration in France of Louis XVIII of France.