The Legal Path of Polish Freedom

Ibrahim Ibn Yaqub’s account of his journey to Slavic states

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 statute of Kalisz

Foundation Charter of the University of Cracow

The Statutes of Casimir III the Great (selection)

Privilege of Koszyce

Union of Krewo (Act of Kreva)

Union of Horodło

Paweł Włodkowic's address at the Council of Constance

Privilege of Jedlnia and Krakow

Jan Ostroróg, Memorial on organising Rzeczpospolita

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

Nihil novi constitution

Copernicus’ Writings about Money

On improving the Commonwealth (excerpts)

Appeal to the Polish noblemen (excerpts)

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

Union of Lublin

The Warsaw Confederation

Henrician articles

Constitution establishing the Crown Tribunal

Union of Brześć

Act of the Tyszowce Confederation

Lwów vows of Jan Kazimierz

Treaty of Hadiach

Bar Confederation Establishment Act

Universal of 24 October 1773 issued by the Commission of National Education

The abolishment of torture and death penalty in witch trials

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

Proclamation of Połaniec

Can the Poles win their independence? (excerpts)

Constitution of the Duchy of Warsaw

Parliamentary resolution re. dethronement of Nicholas I

Manifesto of the Polish Democratic Society

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

Manifesto for the Polish Nation by the Polish National Government

Manifesto of the Interim National Government

The Golden Writ

Józef Piłsudski's letter to Feliks Perl

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

Founding Meeting of the Polish National Committee

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)

Roman Dmowski’s speech at a meeting of the Council of Ten

March Constitution

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

Władysław Sikorski's appeal to the Polish People

Protest!

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”

Jan Nowak-Jeziorański's speech

Non possumus! Memorial of the Polish Episcopate to the communist authorities

The Letter of 34

Letter of Reconciliation of the Polish Bishops to the German Bishops

The appeal of Ryszard Siwiec

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

To the Polish people. Manifesto of the Movement for Defence of Human and Citizen’s Rights

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

Round Table Agreement

Inaugural address of Premier Tadeusz Mazowiecki

John Paul II's Speech to the Polish Parliament