The

Second Polish Republic The Second Polish Republic, at the time officially known as the Republic of Poland, was a country in Central and Eastern Europe that existed between 1918 and 1939. The state was established on 6 November 1918, before the end of the First World ...

adopted the March Constitution on 17 March 1921, after ousting the occupation of the

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forces in the 1918 Greater Poland Uprising, and avoiding conquest by the

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s in the 1920 Polish-Soviet War. The Constitution, based on the Constitution of the

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, was regarded as very democratic. Among others, it expressly ruled out discrimination on racial or religious grounds.

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, The War of the World, The Penguin Press, New York 2006, page 271 It also abolished all

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s and state privileges, and banned the use of

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s. It was partially adjusted by the 1926 August Novelization, and superseded by the

Polish Constitution of 1935 The April Constitution of Poland ( pl, Ustawa konstytucyjna 23 IV 1935 or ''Konstytucja kwietniowa'') was the general law passed by the act of the Polish Sejm on 23 April 1935. It introduced in the Second Polish Republic a presidential syst ...

(April Constitution).

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Full text of the March Constitution
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