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    The Constitution of 3 May 1791, titled the Government Act, was a written constitution for the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth that was adopted by the Great...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    Henrician Articles (category Constitutions of Poland)
    essentially as the first constitution for Poland-Lithuania until the Constitution of 3 May 1791. The charter took the form of 18 articles written and adopted...
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    the absence of the king, although such legislation would have to be accepted by the king ex post. Following the Constitution of 3 May 1791, the senate's...
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    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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    Presidential Palace, Warsaw (category Castles and palaces of the Radziwiłł family)
    world history. In 1791, the facility hosted authors and advocates of the Constitution of 3 May 1791, the first modern European constitution. In 1818, the...
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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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    Constitution of 3 May 1791 Constitutionalism in the United States Gödel's Loophole Founding Fathers of the United States Founders Online History of democracy...
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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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    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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    The April Constitution of Poland (Polish: Ustawa konstytucyjna 23 IV 1935 or Konstytucja kwietniowa) was the general law passed by the act of the Polish...
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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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    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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    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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  • Christopher Kasparek (category University of California, Berkeley alumni)
    as well as the Polish–Lithuanian Constitution of 3 May 1791. He has published papers of his own on the history of the World War II era; Enigma decryption;...
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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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    Wawrzyniec Goślicki (category Ecclesiastical senators of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth)
    influence in the framing the Polish Constitution of 3 May 1791, which historian Norman Davies calls "the first constitution of its kind in Europe". Polish–Lithuanian...
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    Serfdom in Poland (category Economic history of Poland)
    centuries amid both internal and European political upheaval. The Constitution of 3 May 1791 aimed to improve conditions for peasants by placing them under...
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  • 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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