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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.
