Both the ascending Russian Empire and pre-revolutionary…

Both the ascending Russian Empire and pre-revolutionary France aspire  to have Sweden as a client state.

Parliamentarians and others with influence are susceptible to taking bribes that they did their best to increase.

The integrity and the credibility of the political system wanes, and in 1772 the young and charismatic king Gustav III staged a coup d'état, abolished parliamentarism and reinstated royal power in Sweden—more or less with the support of the parliament.

A new Constitution is read to the estates and unanimously accepted by them.

The diet is then dissolved, and Gustav begins his rule as an enlightened despot.

Gustav III's coup d'état thus ends Sweden's Age of Liberty, the half-century long experiment with a parliamentary system and increasing civil rights in the period from Charles XII's death in 1718.