The Constitution of 3 May 1791, titled the Government Act, was a written constitution for the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth adopted by the Great Sejm...
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The Constitution of 3 May 1791 (Polish: Konstytucja 3 Maja 1791 roku) is an 1891 Romantic oil painting on canvas by the Polish artist Jan Matejko. It...
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that takes place on 3 May. The holiday celebrates the declaration of the Constitution of 3 May 1791 – the first modern constitution in Europe. Festivities...
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Constitution of 1791 (French: Constitution française du 3 septembre 1791) was the first written constitution in France, created after the collapse of...
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Constitution of 1791 may refer to: Constitution of May 3, 1791, adopted by the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth French Constitution of 1791, adopted on...
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May Constitution may refer to: Constitution of May 3, 1791, was a constitution of Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth adopted on May 3, 1791 May Constitution...
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most significant is the Constitution of 3 May 1791. The five years after 1992 were spent in dialogue about the new character of Poland. The nation had...
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Great Sejm (category 1791 in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth)
achievement was the adoption of the Constitution of 3 May 1791, often described as Europe's first modern written national constitution, and the world's second...
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Stanisław August Poniatowski (redirect from Stanislaus II of Poland)
first institution of its kind in the world, the Great Sejm of 1788-1792, which led to the Constitution of 3 May 1791 and as a sponsor of many architectural...
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situation, a constitution was adopted on May 3, 1791 – one of the oldest codified national constitutions in the world. The new constitution abolished the...
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formed in May 1791, shortly after the adoption of the Constitution of 3 May 1791, by the efforts of the Patriotic Party. The purpose of the Friends of the Constitution...
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Opinions of the Constitution of 3 May". In Fiszman, Samuel (ed.). Constitution and Reform in Eighteenth-Century Poland: The Constitution of 3 May 1791. Bloomington:...
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Targowica Confederation (conservative nobility of the Commonwealth opposed to the new Constitution of 3 May 1791) and the Russian Empire under Catherine the...
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Henrician Articles (category Constitutions of Poland)
until the Constitution of 3 May 1791. The charter took the form of 18 articles written and adopted by the Polish nobility in 1573 at the town of Kamień,...
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Targowica Confederation (redirect from Confederation of Targowica)
backing of the Russian Empress Catherine II. The confederation opposed the Constitution of 3 May 1791 and fought in the Polish–Russian War of 1792, which...
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Scipione Piattoli (category Academic staff of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia)
participation in drafting the Constitution of 3 May 1791, a milestone in the history of Polish political legislation. He was an organizer of the 1794 Kościuszko...
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adopting in 1791 the Constitution of 3 May 1791, which historian Norman Davies calls the first of its kind in Europe. The revolutionary Constitution recast...
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Public holidays in Poland (redirect from Day of Solidarity and Freedom)
addition, 3 May was reinstated as 3 May Constitution Day. The May holidays (1, 2 and 3 May) are called "majówka" in Polish (roughly translated as May-day picnic)...
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Serfdom in Poland (category Economic history of Poland)
century. The first steps towards the abolition of serfdom were enacted in the Constitution of 3 May 1791, and it was essentially eliminated by the Połaniec...
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Royal elections in Poland (category Sejm of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth)
Commonwealth period between 1572 and 1791. The "free election" was abolished by the Constitution of 3 May 1791, which established a constitutional-parliamentary...
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the advice of the government. Poland developed the first constitution for a monarchy in continental Europe, with the Constitution of 3 May 1791; it was the...
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to as the Bill of Rights which consists of 10 amendments that were added to the Constitution in 1791, as supporters of the Constitution had promised critics...
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Royal Castle, Warsaw (redirect from Castle of Warsaw)
Poland's history; the Constitution of 3 May 1791, first of its type in Europe and the world's second-oldest codified national constitution, was drafted here...
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Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz (category Activists of the Great Emigration)
May 1841) was a Polish poet, playwright and statesman. He was a leading advocate for the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth's Constitution of 3 May 1791....
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Commonwealth in the period of the Four-Year Sejm (Great Sejm) of 1788–1792, whose chief achievement was the Constitution of 3 May 1791. The reformers aimed...
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of 3 May 1791 – oil on canvas, painted by Jan Matejko in 1891 (the centenary of the constitution) Ukrainian stamp depicting the adoption of Ukraine's...
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Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Constitution was passed on 3 May 1791. Its draft was developed by the leading minds of the Enlightenment in Poland such...
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about one million of Polish ancestors donated Jasna Góra Vows of the Polish Nation [pl]. On 3 May (The day when Constitution of 3 May 1791 is commonly celebrated...
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such as Europe's first Constitution of 3 May 1791, but neighboring powers did not allow the reforms to advance. The existence of the Commonwealth ended...
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and treasury. The federation was terminated by the passing of the Constitution of 3 May 1791, when it was supposed to become a single country, the Commonwealth...
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