March Constitution of Poland

Constitutions of Poland
Nihil novi (1505) Henrician Articles (1573) May 3rd (1791) Duchy of Warsaw (1807) Kingdom of Poland (1815) Organic Statute (1832) Small (1919) March (1921) August Novelization (1926) April (1935) Small (1947) People's Republic (1952) April Novelization (1989) Small (1992) Current (1997)

The Second Polish Republic adopted the March Constitution on 17 March 1921, after ousting the occupation of the German/Prussian forces in the 1918 Greater Poland Uprising, and avoiding conquest by the Soviets in the 1920 Polish-Soviet War. The Constitution, based on the French one, was regarded as very democratic. Among others, it expressly ruled out discrimination on racial or religious grounds.^[1] It also abolished all of the royal titles, state privileges and banned the use of blazons in Poland.

It was partially adjusted by the 1926 August Novelization, and superseded by the Polish Constitution of 1935 (April Constitution).

References

↑ Niall Ferguson, The War of the World, The Penguin Press, New York 2006, page 271

Ajnenkiel, Andrzej (1983). Polskie konstytucje. Warszawa: Wiedza Powszechna. ISBN 83-214-0256-9.

External links

(Polish) Full text of the March Constitution DOC
(English) translation of the March Constitution

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