Thursday, May 03, 2007
This Day in the History of Doomed Nations
On this day in 1791, a liberal bill of rights reforming how Poland was governed, by setting up a constitutional monarchy, was signed by King Stanislaw Augustus. It was only the second written constitution in the world after the United States. Unfortunately, Poland ceased to exist just four years later, swallowed up by the Russian and Austrian Empires and Prussia.
Labels: Poland Constitution
# posted by Roger Fraley @ 12:04 AM 
