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| | Constitution of May 3, 1791 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | The sejm, or the assembled estates, shall be divided into two chambers: a chamber of deputies, and a chamber of senators presided over by the king. |
 | | The chamber of deputies, as the image and repository of national sovereignty, shall be the temple of legislation. |
 | | The duty of the chamber of senators, comprising bishops, province chiefs (wojewodowie), castellans and ministers, presided over by the king, who is entilled to cast a votum (vote) of his own, and secondly to resolve paritas (an equal division of votes) either in person or by sending his judgment to that chamber, is: Primo. |
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