Small Constitution of 1992

The Small Constitution of 1992 () was a

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regulating relations between the

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and

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branches of the government of

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, and local

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. It was voted after the

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, by Poland's first freely-elected ''

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'' (parliament). It annulled some of the most outdated parts of the communist 1952

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, in particular replacing statements about Poland being a

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state with those appropriate for a liberal democracy and market economy. The previous adjustment of the 1952 constitution was the

April Novelization The April Novelization ( pl, Nowela kwietniowa) was a set of changes (constitutional amendments) to the 1952 Constitution of the People's Republic of Poland, agreed in April 1989, in the aftermath of the Polish Round Table Agreement. Among key ...

of 1989. The reformed 1952 constitution was completely replaced in 1997 by the current

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