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Wincenty Skrzetuski, a member of the SchP convent, was an outstanding educationist, historian, lawyer and political writer. In Mowy o główniejszych materiach politycznych, issued in 1773 and in a handbook published from 1782–1784 Prawo polityczne narodu Polskiego, he discussed the problem of prevention of the King’s authority. He discussed the issue in the context of the attempted abduction of King Stanisław August Ponia- towski in 1771. His reflections indicate that he was mostly following older views on the crime of regicide and contrary to humanitarian ideas he argued on using the death penalty against all, with no exception, who took part in regicide. Skrzetuski mentioned the fact of not very wide competences of the elective Polish king, but he didn’t follow the Enlightment’s concept of the King’s power. Thus he followed the Catholic concept of the monarch’s power. He justified the full ban of regicide by rational reasons, as well as the reasons coming from the law of nature and from political rules.
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Rev. Wincenty Skrzetuski, an outstanding political writer, lawyer and historian, has published an interesting characteristics of the Permanent Council (Rada Nieustająca), a new central institution established in Poland in 1775-76. These remarks were published in his handbook Prawo polityczne narodu polskiego (The Constitutional Law of Polish Nation). A big part of these remarks was dedicated to one of the most important prerogatives of the Permanent Council – the interpretation of existing laws by passing resolutions about them. Skrzetuski was stressing the importance of creation of the Council, which in his opinion was a kind of the first central government in the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth. The final legal shape of the Permanent Council was a result of a compromise between the King’s tendencies to strengthen his political power and his opponents from the republican party. In Skrzetuski’s opinion the competence of the Permanent Council to interprete the existing laws had big importance for legal practice and was useful for the unification of laws. This competence was strongly criticized and even Skrzetuski was stressing that it was used in too many cases, especially in those which didn’t have to be interpretated.
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Wincenty Skrzetuski, an outstanding political writer, lawyer and historian, in his handbook Prawo polityczne narodu polskiego – The Political Right of Polish Nation – or – The Constitutional Law of Polish Nation), when discussing the issue of the functioning of the political and legal system of the gentry Republic, presented a short draft about the Crown and Lithuanian Tribunal, which were the gentry’s supreme court in the years 1578–1794. For the gentry the Tribunal was the supreme court, to which appeals were made from lower courts, both in civil and criminal suits. Polish piarist made interesting digressions which showed some of the weak points ofthe functioning in the Tribunal. Wincenty Skrzetuski, discussing a procedure of the supreme court sessions. A characteristic feature of the Tribunal was the fact that it was not divided into specialized departments investigating several cases simultaneously. It was decided that the passed judgments would only have the proper authority if they were passed by all the judges from Poland and Lithuania, who in this way represented the majesty of the gentry Republic. The opinions and viewpoints presented by Skrzetuski allow to ascribe him to the group of the Polish political writers, who postulated some drafts of the reforms in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
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The issue of the poor state of the armed forces as well as the army reform in the Polish- -Lithuanian Commonwealth remained one of the primary topics of political debate in the 18th century. Wincenty Skrzetuski, a prominent teacher, historian, lawyer and political writer of the era, also contributed significantly to the discussion. His reflections on the state of the Polish army, collected in his seminal work, The Political Law of the Polish Nation, published in 1782- 1784, were mostly educational and historical in nature and referred to gottfried Lengnich’s Ius publicum Regni Poloniae. additionally, Skrzetuski, in his description of the poor state of the Polish army, postulated a series of changes, including the idea of basing the system of the armed forces on the so-called national army and a strong contingent of professional forces. Skrzetuski’s postulates were not as precise as those formulated by his successors, such as Stanisław Staszic or Hugo kołłątaj, but they still constituted an important voice in the debate and pointed to the necessity of change, in the spirit of reformation and the Enlightenment, where the absolutist army was increasingly contrasted with a national army.
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Wincenty Skrzetuski was a renown pedagogue, historian, lawyer, and political writer of the Stanislavian age. The aim of the present article is to discuss his views upon the so-called landed estate court (sąd zadworny), which included the relational court, the assessorial court, and the referendary court. Skrzetuski formulated his thoughts on this institution in the prominent work known as Prawo polityczne narodu polskiego [Political law of the Polish nation] published in the years 1782-1784. In this publication, he discussed the history of each of the aforemen- tioned courts, as well as their structure, functioning and the scope of cases adequate for them.
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Skrzetuski’s considerations on confederations were very general in nature whereas the au- thor of Prawo polityczne narodu polskiego is portrayed as their opponent. Within his, momentar- ily very general, description of the history and ways of functioning confederation in the former Republic, he shows his moderate views treating confederation as the necessary evil. It is different in the case of liberum veto, which he criticises after Konarski, though also in this case there is the lack of a directly expressed postulate of a total elimination of this institution.
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Wincenty Skrzetuski, an author of the book The Political Law of the Polish Nation presents himself as an advocate of the formation of Continuous Council. It needs to be indicated that a Polish piar left not only a description of the competences of Continuous Council, among which he enlists keeping an internal and external order and execution of laws, but also a valuable evalu- ation of one of the most important prerogatives of a new central state authority formed between 1775 and 1776 which was an interpretation of a biding law made by means of released resolutions. Skrzetuski happens to emphasise the importance of the formation of Continuous Council which was a kind of the first central government and its final shape was the expression of a compromise between the advocates supporting a monarch power and a republican-gentry camp.
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The comparative studies conducted show mutual influences of military laws to be obeyed in the Crown and Lithaunia. Military articles by Krzysztof and Janusz Radziwiłł were one of few native military codifications of the gentry Republic of Poland used when writing Military articles from 1775 which, in turn, constituted the only basis for publishing Military articles for the militia of Karol Stanisław Radziwiłł. Radziwiłł’s articles include numerous humane elements. The very tendencies were already visible in codification from 1775, however, a change Karol Stanisław Radziwiłł made in articles in line with the spirit of the very period led to, included among others, the replacement of death penalty with life imprisonment, combined with a forced labour, as well as a total elimination of a disgraceful punishment of denouncement.
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