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with the corollary that unanimous consent was needed for all measures. A single member of parliament's belief that a measure was injurious to his own constituency (usually simply his own estate), even after the act had been approved, became enough to strike the act. Thus, it became increasingly difficult to undertake action. The liberum veto also provided openings for foreign diplomats to get their way, through bribing nobles to exercise it. Thus, one could characterise Poland-Lithuania in its final period (mid-18th century) before the

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