Constitutional law-making process in Polish Commonwealth between the 16th-18th Centuries
| Autor | Dariusz Makilla |
| Cargo | UEHS Warsaw |
| Páginas | 199-212 |
Historia Constitucional
ISSN 1576-4729, n. 23, 2022. http://www.historiaconstitucional.com, págs. 199-212
CONSTITUTIONAL LAW-MAKING PROCESS IN THE
POLISH COMMONWEALTH IN THE 16-18TH CENTURIES
Dariusz Makiłła
University of Economics and Human Sciences in Warsaw
CONTENTS: I. INTRODUCTION: FOUNDATION OF THE POLISH COMMONWEALTH
- II. CONSTITUTIONAL SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT - III. LAW-MAKING PROCESS
PARTICIPANTS - IV. CONSTITUTIONAL LAW-MAKING PROCEDURE – V.
CONCLUSION.
Abstract: The aim of this work is to present the constitutional law-making process
in the Commonwealth of Poland, which was established as a merger of Poland
and Lithuania in 1569. The system of the state was dened in the constitution
of the Coronation Sejm of King Stefan Batory in 1576, adopted on the basis of
a resolution prepared during the Election Sejm of the rst elected king, Henry
de Valois, 1573. The provisions of the resolution were called Articuli Henriciani
after the king. The constitution provided for a hierarchy of norms determining the
position of the organs: the King, the Sejm and the Council of the Kingdom, which
were united in one supreme sovereign state organ with the power to make law
achieved by consensus.
Keywords: Polish Commonwealth 16-18th Century, Articuli Henriciani, Polish
General Sejm, law-making, constitutionalism
I. INTRODUCTION: FOUNDATION OF THE POLISH COMMONWEALTH
The process of law-making in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth between
the 16th-18th centuries was a part of the state institutions activities that existed in
the constitutional system structure of the Commonwealth. The Polish-Lithuanian
Commonwealth was founded by the Act of Union concluded in Lublin (1st July
1569) and ended almost two hundred years of different state forms, experiences
and political relations between Poland and Lithuania. Formerly, these relations
were initiated with the Union in Krewo in 1385, when one joint state was erected,
sealed with the marriage of the Polish Queen Jadwiga (Hedwig) and Grand Duke of
Lithuania, future King of Poland, Władysław Jagiełło (Ladislaus Jagiello)1.
1 Przywiley około Uniey Wielkiego Xięstwa Litewskiego z Koroną, na Walnym Seymie lubelskim,
od Panow rad duchownych y świeckich, y posłow ziemskich roku pańskiego 1569 uchwalon;
Potwierdzenie unii miedzy narody Polskiemi i litewskiemi, na seymie walnym lubelskim, roku 1569
skończoney; Konstytucje sejmu koronnego lubelskiego, Oboyga Narodow uniowanego, polskiego
y litewskiego roku 1569, Volumina legum, Józafat Ohryzko, Petersburg, 1859, t. 2, pp. 87-92;
Stanisław Grodziski, [et al. edit.], Volumina Constitutionum, T. 2. 1550-1609, Vol. 1. 1550-1585,
Wydawnictwo Sejmowe, Warszawa, 2005, pp. 232-238; Stanisław Kutrzeba, Władysław Semkowicz,
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