Constitution of third May

The first written constitution in Europe, Constitution of third May, was passed by the Polish Sejm parliament for the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth on May 3, 1791. The main points included:

• further unification of the state,
• religious tollerance with exception to apostasia,
• giving political rights to citizens of the cities,
• removing the Liberum Veto,
• limiting to free election of the King to the extinction of Saxonian dynasty.