Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. Norman Davies (University of London) The Third of May, 1791

2. Anna Sucheni-Grabowska (Polish Academy of Sciences) The Origin and Development of the Polish Parliamentary System through the End of the Seventeenth Century

3. Wenceslas J. Wagner (University of Detroit) Some Comments on Old “Privileges” and the “Liberum. Veto”

4. Józef Andrzej Gierowski (Jagiellonian University) Reforms in Poland after the “Dumb Diet” (1717)

5. Zofia Zielińska (Warsaw University) Poland between Prussia and Russia in the Eighteenth Century

6. Kamilla Mrozowska (Jagiellonian University) Educational Reform in Poland during the Enlightenment

7. Andrzej Walicki (University of Notre Dame) The Idea of Nation in the Main Currents of Political Thought of the Polish Enlightenment

8. Anna Grześkowiak-Krwawicz (Polish Academy of Sciences) Political and Social Literature during the Four-Year Diet

9. Adam Zamoyski (London) The Art of the Possible

10. Zofia Libiszowska (University of Łódź) The Impact of the American Constitution on Polish Political Opinion in the Late Eighteenth Century

11. Jerzy Michalski (Polish Academy of Sciences) The Meaning of the Constitution of 3 May

12. Zbigniew Szcząska (Warsaw University) The Fundamental Principles Concerning the Political System of the 3 May, 1791 Government Statute

13. Rett R. Ludwikowski (The Catholic University of America) Main Principles of the First American, Polish, and French Constitutions Compared

14. Krystyna Zienkowska (Polish Academy of Sciences) Reforms Relating to the Third Estate

15. Juliusz Bardach (Warsaw University) The Constitution of 3 May and the Mutual Guarantee of the Two Nations

16. Łukasz Kądziela (Warsaw University) Local Government Reform during the Four-Year Diet

17. Adam Lityński (University of Silesia) The Reform of Criminal Law during the Four-Year Diet

18. Jörg K. Hoensch (University of Saar) Citizen, Nation, Constitution: The Realization and Failure of the Constitution of 3 May 1791 in Light of Mutual Polish-French Influence

19. Samuel Fiszman (Indiana University) European and American Opinions of the Constitution of 3 May

20. Jerzy Kowecki (Polish Academy of Sciences) The Kościuszko Insurrection: Continuation and Radicalization of Change

21. Andrzej Ajnenkiel (Polish Academy of Sciences) The Influence of the Constitution of 3 May on Constitutional Life of the Second Republic (1918-1939): Reality and Myth

22. Piotr S. Wandycz (Yale University) Two Revolutions: 1788-1792, 1980-1990

Index

The ornaments in this book are taken from 18th century Polish publications