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<p>of the expiring Homeland".</p>

<p><big> Background </big></p>
<p>Polish <a href="page.php?w=constitutionalism">constitutionalism</a> can be traced to the 13th century, when government by consensus and representation was already well established in the <a href="page.php?w=Kingdom_of_Poland_%281025-1385%29">young Polish state</a>. The emergence of parliamentary bodies, the <a href="page.php?w=sejm">sejm</a> and <a href="page.php?w=sejmiki">sejmiki</a>, followed in the first half of the 16th century. By the 17th century, Poland's legal and political tradition</p><p>
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