Free Royal Cities Act
Stanisław August
.The Free Royal Cities Act (full
Constitution of May 3, 1791. The Act was subsequently incorporated in extenso
into the Constitution by reference in its Article III.
The Act granted to the Commonwealth's
public offices; it did not give them the rights of szlachta (nobles), however it did allow the possibility for ennoblement; it also provided townspeople right for representation in Sejm as advisers in the cities' affairs.[1]
See also
Notes
- ^ The Third of May Constitution Archived June 8, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
References
- Joseph Kasparek, The Constitutions of Poland and of the United States: Kinships and Genealogy, Miami, American Institute of Polish Culture, 1980, pp. 31–33.
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