Definitions
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- proper n. The lower house of the Polish parliament.
Etymologies
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Hmm, the Sejm is kind of akin to a Senator’s hold on legislation or nominees.
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He refused to call the Sejm between 1820 and 1825.
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The [[History of Poland | Polish legislature]] or "Sejm" in the 17th and 18th centuries operated by consensus.
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Polish legislature or "Sejm" in the 17th and 18th centuries operated by consensus.
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The Senate now is pretty close to a replica of the eighteenth century Polish Sejm.
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The Sejm was inspired by the French Revolution, itself inspired by ours.
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It was, in fact, a “Great Sejm” — constitutional convention, in effect — bent on reforming the Polish political system that prompted the final invasion and partition of the country, as its neighbors could not abide an effective government in Warsaw.
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Even in the Polish parliament, where such a rule prevailed for the century before Poland vanished from the map of Europe, the victim of minority sabotage, the member of the Sejm who wished to object had to identify himself!
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During its first two hundred years of formal existence the Polish Sejm did not have an unanimity requirement.
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Based on the assumption that all members of the Polish nobility were absolutely equal politically, the Liberum Veto meant, in practice, that every bill introduced into the Sejm had to be passed unanimously.
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