Resolution of the Chamber of Deputies and the Legislative Activity of the Sejm — the Example of 1615 Cover Image

Uchwały izby poselskiej a działalność legislacyjna sejmu — przykład 1615 roku
Resolution of the Chamber of Deputies and the Legislative Activity of the Sejm — the Example of 1615

Author(s): Karol Łopatecki
Subject(s): History of Law, Constitutional Law, Economic policy, Military policy, Politics and law, 17th Century
Published by: Instytut Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: General Sejm; parliamentarism of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth; Sejm constitutions; 1615 Sejm; legislative process; Chamber of Deputies’ resolutions; mass levy; troops review;

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses the legislative output of the Sejm of 1615. There is a common opinion in reference to the seventeenth century that the constitution was a concordant conclusion of the three parliamentary estates combined with a promulgation. However, the conducted analysis reveals that despite the lack of agreement to the conclusion of the 1615 Sejm, it adopted normative acts: both at the beginning and at the end of the parliamentary proceedings. In addition, a new type of law sources has been characterised, i.e. resolutions of the Chamber of Deputies, which at that time were equal in rank to Sejm constitutions.

  • Issue Year: 128/2021
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 549-575
  • Page Count: 27
  • Language: Polish