3 May Constitution

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gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:constitutional_law
gptkbp:abolished gptkb:Targowica_Confederation
1792
gptkbp:adoptedBy 3 May 1791
gptkbp:author gptkb:Hugo_Kołłątaj
gptkb:Stanisław_August_Poniatowski
gptkb:Ignacy_Potocki
gptkb:Stanisław_Małachowski
gptkbp:category gptkb:History_of_Poland
gptkb:Polish–Lithuanian_Commonwealth
Constitutions
Legal history
18th-century documents
gptkbp:commemoratedBy gptkb:Constitution_Day_(Poland)
3 May
gptkbp:country gptkb:Poland
gptkb:Polish–Lithuanian_Commonwealth
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label 3 May Constitution
gptkbp:influencedBy gptkb:French_Constitution_of_1791
Enlightenment ideas
American Constitution
gptkbp:language gptkb:Latin
Polish
gptkbp:locationAdopted gptkb:Warsaw
gptkbp:officialName gptkb:Constitution_of_3_May_1791
gptkbp:precededBy gptkb:Henrician_Articles
gptkbp:purpose reform and modernize the political system
gptkbp:significance second modern constitution in the world
first constitution in Europe
gptkbp:subject separation of powers
hereditary monarchy
parliamentary government
Catholicism as state religion
abolition of liberum veto
protection of peasants
rights of townspeople
strengthening of monarchy
abolition of elective monarchy
legal equality of nobility and townspeople
protection of serfs
gptkbp:successor gptkb:Constitution_of_the_Duchy_of_Warsaw
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Mazurek_3_Maja
gptkbp:bfsLayer 6