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  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: The Constitutional Tribunal of Poland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
The Constitutional Tribunal of Poland is a judicial body established to resolve disputes on the constitutionality of the activities of state institutions; its main task is to supervise the compliance of statutory law with the Constitution of the Republic of Poland.
It is bordered by Germany to the west, the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south, Ukraine and Belarus to the east, and the Baltic Sea, Lithuania, and Russia (in the form of the Kaliningrad Oblast exclave) to the north.
Poland's first historically documented ruler, Mieszko I, was baptized in 966, adopting Catholic Christianity as the country's new official religion, to which the bulk of the population converted in the course of the next century.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/The-Constitutional-Tribunal-of-Poland   (864 words)

  
 Poland - The State Tribunal
The Jaruzelski regime created the State Tribunal in 1982, by the same law that formed the Constitutional Tribunal, in response to instances of high official corruption in 1980.
The State Tribunal passes judgment on the guilt or innocence of the highest office holders in the land accused of violating the constitution and laws.
The chairperson of the State Tribunal is the president of the Supreme Court.
www.country-data.com /cgi-bin/query/r-10744.html   (112 words)

  
 Poland
The adoption of Christianity in Poland is seen by many Poles, regardless of their religious affiliation, as one of the most significant national historical events; the new religion was used to unify the tribes in the region.
Poland became a kingdom in 1025, and in 1569 it cemented a long association with the Grand Duchy of Lithuania by uniting to form the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
Poland has a large agricultural sector of private farms, that could be a leading producer of food in the European Union now that Poland is a member.
www.wikipediaondvd.com /nav/art/3.html   (4201 words)

  
 Poland - Wikinfo
Poland's first historically documented ruler, Mieszko I, was baptized in 966, adopting Catholic Christianity as the nation's new official religion, to which the bulk of the population converted in the course of the next centuries.
Poland was also a centre of migration of peoples and the Jewish community began to settle and flourish in Poland during this era (see History of the Jews in Poland).
Poland is a liberal democracy, with a President as a Head of State, whose current constitution dates from 1997.
www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Poland   (3880 words)

  
  Transformation: Poland
State and private institutions for education, training and research and development have improved and education is regarded as a key qualification to compete on the global market.
Poland’s political actors proved to be rather inflexible regarding the willingness to learn and adapt to policy-making or the aims of certain reforms to a change in environment.
Poland is an active partner in other international political institutions such as NATO, the OSCE, the Council of Europe or the Council of the Baltic Sea States and international economic institutions such as the OECD and the EBRD.
www.bertelsmann-transformation-index.de /169.0.html   (6033 words)

  
 The State Tribunal of Poland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The State Tribunal of Poland is the judicial body, which rules on the constitutional liability of people holding the highest offices of state.
The composition of the State Tribunal is established at the first sitting of each new Sejm and is binding for its term.
Members of the State Tribunal must hold Polish citizenship, may not have a criminal record or have had their civic rights revoked, nor may they be employed in the state administration.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_State_Tribunal_of_Poland   (220 words)

  
 The State Tribunal of Poland - Biocrawler
The State Tribunal of Poland is the judicial body, which rules on the constitutional liability of people holding the highest offices of state.
The composition of the State Tribunal is established at the first sitting of each new Sejm and is binding for its term.
Members of the State Tribunal must hold Polish citizenship, may not have a criminal record or have had their civic rights revoked, nor may they be employed in the state administration.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/The_State_Tribunal_of_Poland   (193 words)

  
 Poland - Netencyclo encyclopedia : Poland
Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine and Belarus to the east; and the Baltic Sea, Lithuania and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north.
Poland regained its independence in 1918 after World War I but lost it again in World War II, occupied by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, emerging several years later as a communist country within the Eastern Bloc under the control of the Soviet Union.
The coldest region of Poland is in the Northeast in the Podlachian Voivodeshipnear the border of Belarus.
www.netencyclo.com /en/Poland   (5830 words)

  
 Poland
Poland is an ancient nation that was conceived around the middle of the 10th century.
This state lasted until 1939 when it was overrun by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union in the start of World War II, during which Poland suffered greatly.
Poland once contained a great variety of minorities, but the exterminations during World War II and the (forced) migrations afterwards left Poland as a far more homogenous country.
www.factspider.com /po/poland.html   (971 words)

  
 Poland (08/07)
Poland was the first former centrally planned economy in central Europe to end its recession and return to growth in the early 1990s.
Poland became a full member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in March 1999 as part of the first wave of enlargement outlined at the July 1997 NATO Summit in Madrid.
Poland continues to be a regional leader in support and participation in the NATO Partnership for Peace Program and has actively engaged most of its neighbors and other regional actors to build stable foundations for future European security arrangements.
www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/2875.htm   (4737 words)

  
 FREE In-depth report - The State Tribunal - Poland
The Jaruzelski regime created the State Tribunal in 1982, by the same law that formed the Constitutional Tribunal, in response to instances of high official corruption in 1980.
The State Tribunal passes judgment on the guilt or innocence of the highest office holders in the land accused of violating the constitution and laws.
The chairperson of the State Tribunal is the president of the Supreme Court.
www.exploitz.com /Poland-The-State-Tribunal-cg.php   (243 words)

  
 The Constitution
The Constitution of the Republic of Poland is the supreme Polish legal document and the basis of the political system of the Polish State.
All the organs of the Polish State are charged with the upholding of and compliance with the Constitution.
This is the special duty of the Constitutional Tribunal, a court appointed to supervise the constitutionality of laws.
www.poland.gov.pl /The,Constitution,384.html   (414 words)

  
 State Party Report - Poland
The Court of the State and the Commissioner of Citizens' Rights, as well as the organization and functioning of the courts of law and public prosecutors' offices, where the separation of courts and the independence of judges are ensured and guaranteed.
Accession by Poland in November 1991 to the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees signed in Geneva on 28 July 1951, and to the Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees signed on 31 January 1967, in New York, should also be pointed out.
The possibility of introducing in Poland a state of war or introducing in some parts of the country or on the entire territory martial law or a state of emergency is at present provided for in the Little Constitution.
www.hri.ca /fortherecord1999/documentation/tbodies/ccpr-c-95-add8.htm   (14813 words)

  
 ICTY-Bulletin N°12 - Supplement 1
Such imprisonment shall be in accordance with the laws of the States concerned, and shall be supervised by the Tribunal.
The Netherlands, for example, has stated that it should not be the first State selected to enforce a sentence of the Tribunal, as it is the Host Country for the Tribunal and suspects are already on remand in the Hague.
For example, Germany has stated that, with respect to the duration of sentence, the judgement of the Tribunal shall be controlling but may not exceed the maximum penalty which could be imposed under German law for that offence.
www.un.org /icty/BL/sup1-e.htm   (1292 words)

  
 JURIST - Poland: Polish Law, Legal Research, Human Rights
Poland is a multiparty parliamentary democracy in which executive power is shared by the Prime Minister, the Council of Ministers, and to a lesser extent, the President.
The Constitutional Tribunal rules on the constitutionality of legislation.
On the other hand, in 1992 Poland's body of laws still contained a motley assortment of Soviet-style statutes full of vague language aimed at protecting the communist monopoly of power rather than the rule of law itself.
jurist.law.pitt.edu /world/poland.htm   (653 words)

  
 LESSER POLAND
The name "Malopolska" - Lesser Poland - appeared in the 15th century, and is derived from the Latin "Polonia Minor", which indicates that this region joined the Kingdom of Poland after "Wielkopolska," Greater Poland, the cradle of the Polish state.
The Bledowska Desert is Poland's largest - and until recently the largest in Central Europe - accumulation of loose sand away from any sea, created thousands of years ago by a melting glacier.
The longest valley in the Polish Tatras is the Dolina Suchej Wody Gasienicowej (13km).
travel.poland.com /texts/en/t-ap-4-1.php   (6493 words)

  
 FTC - International Activities: Competition & Consumer Protection Authorities Worldwide
State Commission for the Protection of Economic Competition
State Committee of Ukraine for Technical Regulation and
State Committee on Demonopolization, Support of Competition and Entrepreneurship
ftc.gov /oia/authorities.shtm   (272 words)

  
 Piotr Kropotkin : The State. Its Historic Role (1897)
They destroyed all ties between men, declaring that the State and the Church alone, must henceforth create union between their subjects; that the Church and the State alone have the task of watching over the industrial, commercial, judicial, artistic, emotional interests, for which men of the twelfth century were accustomed to unite directly.
Thus as soon as the State began to be constituted in the sixteenth century, it sought to destroy all the links which existed among the citizens both in the towns and in the villages.
But the State was not satisfied with putting a spoke in the wheels of life of the sworn brotherhoods of trades which embarrassed it by placing themselves between it and its subjects.
www.panarchy.org /kropotkin/1897.state.html   (14990 words)

  
 Facts About Poland
Poland regained its independence in 1918 only to be overrun by Germany and the Soviet Union in World War II.
Poland joined NATO in 1999 and is scheduled to accede to the European Union along with nine other states on 1 May 2004.
Poland has steadfastly pursued a policy of economic liberalization throughout the 1990s and today stands out as a success story among transition economies.
worldfacts.us /Poland.htm   (1080 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Poland - Government and Politics | Polish Information Resource
In 1989 round table talks between the opposition and the communist government spawned a flurry of legislation and constitutional amendments that merged democratic reforms with institutions and laws inherited from four decades of communist rule.
But the end of generous state subsidies in favor of a profit- and competition-based system bankrupted hundreds of Polish publishing enterprises.
Poland - Southern Neighbors and the Visegrád Triangle
reference.allrefer.com /country-guide-study/poland/poland176.html   (543 words)

  
 New Polish President Sends Worrying Signals | Europe | Deutsche Welle | 24.10.2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Poland's commitment to European integration in the EU's political arena will probably not be promoted as much and there's a danger that Poland will isolate and marginalize itself.
Poland must have an interest in having allies in Germany and not isolate itself in crucial looming budget talks.
Poland on Sunday elected the conservative, staunchly Catholic Lech Kaczynski president by a definitive margin, bucking pre-vote surveys that had given his liberal rival the lead.
www.dw-world.de /dw/article/0,2144,1750896,00.html   (889 words)

  
 The State of Europe before the Reformation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Coming to the government of the hereditary states of his family in 1487, he had received the electoral dignity from the emperor; and in 1493, having gone on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, he was there made a knight of the Holy Sepulchre.
Zurich was distinguished among all the states by its courageous resistance to the claims of Rome.
Such was the state of Europe at the beginning of the sixteenth century, which was destined to produce so great a transformation in Christian society.
bereanbeacon.org /history/history/state_europe_before_reformation.htm   (20926 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Waldenses
Such an itinerant life was ill-suited for the married state, and to the profession of poverty they added the vow of chastity.
In the fifteenth century communities hardly less important are mentioned in the Papal States and other parts of Central Italy.
The appearance of the Waldenses in the Diocese of Strasburg is recorded in 1211 and the years 1231-1233 were marked in Germany by resolute efforts to stamp out their errors.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/15527b.htm   (2863 words)

  
 JURIST - Poland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Poland is a multiparty democracy with a bicameral parliament.
The current government structure consists of a council of ministers led by a Prime Minister, typically chosen from a majority coalition in the bicameral legislature's lower house.
The president elected every 5 years is head of state.
jurist.law.pitt.edu /worldlaw/poland.php   (336 words)

  
 JWs Conflicts With the State
In 1940, the major reason given to arrest Witnesses in the United States was the claim that their assembly was in violation of various "ordinances," a ploy which White concludes was "definitely useless" to suppress them.
Since the sect's formation in the 1870s, in the United States, it has come into conflict with the governments around the world because of its beliefs in the coming theocracy and its teaching that all political powers are expressions of Satan's power over humanity.
Jehovah's Witness children who refused to sing the national anthem and salute the flag during patriotic exercises in public schools were often expelled from class, and in a few cases, removed from their parents' care and placed in foster homes and juvenile detention centres.
www.seanet.com /~raines/conflics.html   (7846 words)

  
 Category:Government of Poland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This category focuses on the work of national and local government in Poland.
For other aspects of the political process in Poland see Category:Politics of Poland.
There are 5 subcategories shown below (more may be shown on subsequent pages).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Category:Government_of_Poland   (89 words)

  
 The State
The Parliament: Sejm and Senate of the Republic of Poland.
The NSB is a state institution on external and internal security and defense field.
The NIK’ s Council “validates ” the analysis of the execution of the state budget and of the monetary policy guidelines by the government, and then adopts a resolution concerning the vote to grant approval of the financial accounts.
www.poland.pl /info/information_about_poland/state.htm   (459 words)

  
 Rice reaches out to Russia - The Washington Times: World - February 06, 2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
ANKARA, Turkey — Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said yesterday that Russia must show stronger commitment to the "basics of democracy" if it wants to "deepen" its relations with the West, but punishing it would be the wrong thing to do.
During the flight to Ankara later in the day, she told reporters that punishing Moscow is not the answer.
Miss Rice is on a weeklong trip to Europe and the Middle East, and her hectic schedule did not allow her to travel to Russia.
www.washtimes.com /world/20050206-123644-9192r.htm   (678 words)

  
 Poland
Poland law resource page with links to the Poland constitution, Poland government, Poland law firms, Poland law, Poland criminal law, Poland court, Poland legal research, Poland e-commerce law, Poland president, Poland prime minister, Poland legislature, Poland tax law, and Poland law guide.
From Dr. Warylewski, Assistant Professor of Criminal Law, University of Gdansk, Faculty of Law, Poland.
Includes a criminal justice profile of Poland, and the Polish Penal Code.
www.washlaw.edu /forint/europe/poland.html   (259 words)

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