Liberum veto
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title:
Liberum veto
text:
The liberum veto was a parliamentary device in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. It was a form of unanimity voting rule that allowed any member of the Sejm (legislature) to force an immediate end to the current session and to nullify any legislation that had already been passed at the session by shouting either Sisto activitatem! or Nie pozwalam!. The rule was in place from the mid-17th century to the late 18th century in the Sejm's parliamentary deliberations. It was based on the premise that
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description:
Parliamentary device in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberum_veto
date created:
2004-10-01T20:43:13Z
date modified:
2024-09-13T20:02:10Z
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