The Legal Path of Polish Freedom

Dagome Iudex

How Mieszko took Dąbrówka as his wife

On the first Bolesław, known as the Famed or the Brave

On the magnificence and power of Bolesław the Famous

General privilege for the Jews in Greater Poland – the statue of Kalisz

Foundation Charter of the University of Cracow

The Statutes of Casimir III the Great (selection)

Union of Krewo (Act of Kreva)

Union of Horodło

Privilege of Jedlnia and Krakow

Union of Mielnik (the Privilege of Aleksander, Grand Duke of Lithuania)

Nihil novi constitution

Declaration of King Zygmunt August (Sigismund Augustus) regarding Polish-Lithuanian union

Union of Lublin

The Warsaw Confederation

Henrician articles

Lwów vows of Jan Kazimierz

The abolishment of torture and death penalty in witch trials

The Constitution of the 3rd of May (the Government Statute)

Proclamation of Połaniec

Constitution of the Duchy of Warsaw

Parliamentary resolution re. dethronement of Nicholas I

The oath of the members of the secret organisation managed by Szymon Konarski

Manifesto of the Interim National Government

The Golden Writ

Józef Piłsudski’s address to troops of the Riflemen’s Association and the Polish Rifle Squads

Manifesto of the People’s Government of the Republic of Poland

Note of the creation of an independent Polish State

Statement from the Polish government

Decree on the electoral system for the Constitutional Sejm (excerpt)

March Constitution

Speech made by Józef Beck, the Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs, in the Sejm

Note addressed to the Governments of the United Nations by the Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs, Edward Raczyński, regarding German crimes in occupied Poland

Order to dissolve the Home Army given by Home Army Commander-in-Chief General Leopold Okulicki

Manifesto of the Council of National Unity to the Polish and Allied Nations

Raphael Lemkin, “Genocide as a Crime under International Law”

Appeal of the Workers’ Defense Committee to Society and the Authorities of the PRL

Homily of John Paul II delivered during Holy Mass at Victory Square, Warsaw

Demands of the striking crews of factory workers and the enterprises represented by the Inter-Factory Strike Committee

Appeal of the 1st National Congress of Delegates of Solidarity to the working people of Eastern Europe

Inaugural address of Premier Tadeusz Mazowiecki

John Paul II's Speech to the Polish Parliament