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Constitutional Revision in Poland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2013

Arnold J. Zurcher
Arnold J. Zurcher
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New York University
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Following a day of parliamentary skirmishing during which the behavior of the majority sometimes recalled the parliamentary tactics of the illustrious American Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr. Thomas B. Reed, the Polish Sejm, on January 26, adopted an entirely new constitution for Poland. The bill providing for this action had been introduced in the Sejm by Marshal Pilsudski's parliamentary allies, the government bloc, toward the end of 1933, but they had consistently failed to secure a majority of two-thirds demanded for amendments by the existing constitution. On the 26th, however, opposition deputies, in protest against the threats of the government bloc to alter the usual procedure as well as against the bloc's attempt to dragoon them into acceptance of the bill, withdrew in a body.

Type
Foreign Governments and Politics
Information
American Political Science Review , Volume 28 , Issue 3 , June 1934 , pp. 489 - 495
Copyright
Copyright © American Political Science Association 1934

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References

1 For details of the procedure, see New York Times, Jan. 27, 1934.

2 Ibid., Mar. 17, 1934.

3 See the author's Experiment with Democracy in Central Europe (New York, 1933), pp. 193–194Google Scholar.

4 For details of the project, see Ogg, F. A., “A Proposed New Constitution for Poland”, Current History, April, 1929, pp. 165–166Google Scholar.

5 Dyboski, Roman, Poland (London, 1933), p. 417Google Scholar.

6 The following analysis of the proposed new constitution is based upon a translation furnished the author by the Polish Press Information Service, 385 Madison Avenue, New York City. A summary appears also in the Bulletin of the Polish Press Information Service for Jan. 15, 1934, pp. 5–8.

7 Art. 16.

8 Art. 3.

9 Art. 13.

10 Art. 14.

11 Art. 24.

12 Art. 42.

13 Art. 61.

14 Art. 44.

15 Art. 45.

16 Arts. 47, 48.

17 Art. 44.

18 Art. 12.

19 Arts. 28.

20 Arts. 35, 36.

21 Art. 39.

22 Art. 40.

23 Art. 30.

24 Art. 61.

25 Extracts from the speech appear in the Bulletin of the Polish Press Information Service for September 15, 1933, p. 73.