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03.05 - Constitution Day! Painting: Jan Matejko, Constitution of 3 May, 1791, 1891. Foreground: King Stanisław August (left) enters St John’s Collegiate Church where deputies will swear to uphold the Constitution. Background: the Royal Castle where the Constitution has just been adopted. 

■ Constitution of May 3, 1791 is considered one of the most important achievements in the history of Poland. Historian Norman Davies calls it “the first constitution of its type in Europe”; other scholars also refer to it as the world’s second oldest constitution. 

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