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Constitution of Poland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The Constitution abolished pernicious parliamentary institutions such as the liberum veto, which at one time had placed the sejm at the mercy of any deputy who might choose, or be bribed by an interest or foreign power, to undo all the legislation that had been passed by that sejm. |
 | | In the War in Defense of the Constitution, Poland was betrayed by its Prussian ally Frederick William II and defeated by the Imperial Russia of Catherine the Great, allied with the Targowica Confederation, a cabal of Polish magnates who opposed reforms that might weaken their influence. |
 | | Prior to the current 1997 Constitution, country was governed by the Small Constitution of 1992, which amended the main articles of the Stalinist Polish Constitution of 1952 and formed the legal basis of the Polish State between 1992 and 1997. |
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