#Constitution #3May
🚩POLAND celebrates the 3rd May Constitution!
🚩Today in POLAND 🇵🇱 we celebrate the 3rd of May Constitution Day. Adopted on 3 May 1791, it was the first modern written Constitution in Europe and the second in the world 🌎
🚩It was intended as a response to the deteriorating internal and international situation of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, which only 150 years earlier had been one of Europe’s greatest powers and the largest country in Europe;
🚩The 3rd of May Constitution abolished the “tools of the nobility’s power”, such as the liberum veto, confederations, the confederated sejm, and limited the rights of the land sejmiks;
🚩On the day of the establishment of the May 3 Constitution, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth ceased to exist and was replaced by the Republic of Poland. The Constitution introduced a tripartite division of power into legislative, executive and judiciary;
🚩It limited the legal immunities and privileges of the landed gentry, the so-called nobility. It also confirmed the privileges of the bourgeoisie granted in an act of 18 April 1791. According to this act, burghers had the right to personal security, possession of landed estates, the right to hold officer posts and positions in the public administration, and the right to acquire nobility.
🚩THE 3rd MAY CONSTITUTION DAY was celebrated until the last partition. The celebration of the 3rd of May was forbidden in all partitions, only after the First World War when Poland regained its independence was the 3rd of May Constitution Day resumed. During World War II, during the German and Soviet occupation, the holiday was outlawed. It was only in 1981 that the people’s government allowed the 3rd of May celebrations. Since 1989, the 3rd of May Constitution Day has again been a national holiday!
🚩WILL POLAND 🇵🇱 shares this day with you!