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The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth's Constitutional Revolution
In Episode 260, we turn our attention to the final, desperate act of political survival for the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. While previous episodes explored the golden age under Sigismund II Augustus and the subsequent decay caused by the liberum veto, this episode focuses on the dramatic events of May 3, 1791. We examine how a small group of reformers, including Hugo Kołłątaj and Ignacy Potocki, managed to draft and enact the Constitution of the Third of May, creating Europe’s first modern written constitution and America’s second. Lucas walks us through the tense days leading up to the…
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