The article discusses the historical, philosophical, and legal determinants behind the implementation of the principle of national sovereignty in the first basic law of the reborn Polish state. First, the text discusses the place occupied by the principle of national sovereignty in the tradition of Polish political philosophy; next it presents the impact of Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s concept of the social contract on its evolution. From this perspective, the article outlines the main areas of political dispute concerning the shape of the state’s political system and assesses the adopted components of the principle of sovereignty and their impact on the functioning of the political system in the first years of the Second Republic of Poland.
Maciej Wojtacki (Mon,) studied this question.
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