Poland Quotes
We recognize the nobility as the foremost defenders of liberty and of the present constitution. We charge unto the virtue, citizenship and honor of every nobleman the reverence of its sanctity and the safeguarding of its durability, as the sole bulwark of the country and of our liberties.
To many of us the notion of liberty and aristocracy and nobility are contradictory. However, at the time, the nobility, unlike most Poles, were literate and educated and had followed the U. S. Constitution adoption. And this Constitution was created with the Nobility being one of the driving forces. See {585394}.
Poland, Article II, Constitution, May 3, 1791
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Apparently the “faults and errors” of England and the United States in their constitutions were not so bad after all and it was Poland who subsequently had to rewrite and adopt new constitutions thereafter until 1997 when they seem to have adopted most of the “faults and errors.”
In one of the most unusual revolutions in world history, Brazil became independent from Portugal via a revolution led by the son of the Portuguese King and heir to the throne, Pedro I. The crown prince of Portugal, led Brazil in her breakaway from Portugal and by popular acclaim became Pedro I, Emperor of Brazil. He is probably the only monarch in history who was the heredity monarch of one kingdom and selected by popular acclaim to the throne of another.
There was much anti-war sentiment in 1812. Reacting to anti-war literature in Boston bookstores:
Even in 1828 there were issues of which politicians would protect Constitutional rights and which might not.
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe, situated between the Baltic Sea in the north and two mountain ranges (the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains) in the south. Bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine and Belarus to the east; and the Baltic Sea, Kaliningrad Oblast (a Russian exclave) and Lithuania to the north. The total area of Poland is 312,679 square kilometres (120,726 sq mi), making it the 69th largest country in the world and the 9th largest in Europe. With a population of over 38.5 million people, Poland is the 34th most populous country in the world, the 8th most populous country in Europe and the sixth most populous member of the European Union, as well as the most populous post-communist member of the European Union. Poland is a unitary state divided into 16 administrative subdivisions and its capital and largest city is Warsaw. Other metropolises include Kraków, Wrocław, Poznań, Gdańsk and Szczecin. The country's largest agglomeration is the Silesian Metropolis.
