Years of the 18th Century in Lithuania - 1764 in Lithuania, 1767 in Lithuania, 1772 in Lithuania, 1791 in Lithuania, 1792 in Lithuania (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: 1764 in Lithuania, 1767 in Lithuania, 1772 in Lithuania, 1791 in Lithuania, 1792 in Lithuania, 1793 in Lithuania, 1794 in Lithuania, 1795 in Lithuania, Constitution of May 3, 1791, First Partition of Poland, Grodno Sejm, Second Partition of Poland, Targowica Confederation, Polish-russian War of 1792, Convocation Sejm, Third Partition of Poland, Battle of Mir, Wilno Uprising, S?uck Confederation. Excerpt: The Constitution of May 3, 1791 (Polish: Lithuanian: ) is generally regarded as Europe's first and the world's second modern codified national constitution, following the 1788 ratification of the United States Constitution (however, see also: Corsican Constitution). The May 3, 1791, Constitution was adopted as a "Government Act" (Polish: Ustawa rzdowa) on that date by the Sejm (parliament) of the PolishLithuanian Commonwealth. It was in effect for only a year, until the Russo-Polish War of 1792. The May 3 Constitution was designed to redress long-standing political defects of the PolishLithuanian Commonwealth and its traditional system of "Golden Liberty" conveying disproportionate rights and privileges to the nobility. The Constitution introduced political equality between townspeople and nobility (szlachta) and placed the peasants under the protection of the government, thus mitigating the worst abuses of serfdom. The Constitution abolished pernicious parliamentary institutions such as the liberum veto, which at one time had put the sejm at the mercy of any deputy who might choose, or be bribed by an interest or foreign power, to undo legislation passed by that sejm. The Constitution sought to supplant the existing anarchy fostered by some of the country's magnates with a more democratic constitutional monarchy. The document was translat... More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=463477