Re:A No. 1 hit vanished from Poland’s charts – it’s not goin...
by austhrow743 on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @04:50AM
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Are you trying to pass off a monarch being elected for life by the nobility as democracy or what?
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Re:A No. 1 hit vanished from Poland’s charts – it’s not goin...
by st1ck on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @08:42AM
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Of course it wasn't a democracy in a modern sense, but sejm had legislative power. The system is even called szlachta democracy [0] (although that may be a bit biased name). Compare it to most of Europe (except England, Netherlands, Venice etc.) where you'd have a rise of absolute monarchy up until the French Revolution.