Memory of the World
The Act of the Union of Lublin document
Name and identification details of the items being nominated The Act of the Union of Lublin document Description The Act of the Union of Lublin of 1569 established in early modern age by means of negotiations and free agreement the Commonwealth of two equal statescolumn the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania The Unions importance consisted not only in the lasting character political role played by the parliament in the Unions Jagellonian monarchy and previous PolishLithuanian unions as well as intellectual backgrounds of the Republican Romes tradition and the Renaissance the Union of Lublin significantly strengthened the civic republican and democratic attitudes in political practice and thought of its time The Act of the Union agreed between the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania at Sejm state parliament meeting in Lublin on July 1569 constituted one of the legal foundations of the Commonwealth called also Res Publica Republic another one was the Henrican Articles which included the Warsaw Confederation of 1573 The act of the Union of Lublin of 1569 is a unique testimony to establishing in early modern age by means of negotiations and free agreement of the Commonwealth of two equal statescolumn the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania The Unions importance consisted not only in the lasting character political power and civilizational attractiveness of thus created Commonwealth It was no less due to the very uniqueness as for its time of the adopted solution and of the active decisive political role played by the parliament in the Unions negotiation and adoption process Stemming from traditions of multicultural multiethnic Jagiellonian monarchy and previous PolishLithuanian unions as well as intellectual backgrounds of the republican Romes tradition and the Renaissance the Union of Lublin significantly strengthened the civic republican and democratic attitudes in political practice and thought of its time The act of the Union agreed between the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania at the Sejm state parliament meeting in Lublin on 1 July 1569 constituted one of the legal foundations of the Commonwealth called also Res Publica Republic another one was the Henrician Articles which included the Warsaw Confederation of 1573
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