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The Golden Liberty: Poland's Unruly Parliament
In 1505, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth adopted a radical governing principle: Nihil novi, or 'nothing new' — no law without the approval of the Sejm, the parliament of nobles. This was the birth of Golden Liberty, a system that gave the szlachta, or nobility, extraordinary power, and with it, the right to elect their king and even reject his decrees. This episode explores how this experiment in noble democracy worked in practice — through the Sejm, with its chamber of envoys and its famous liberum veto, the single dissenting vote that could dissolve the entire parliament…
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