Poland
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Dissertations on Early Law and Custom
Kingdom whose elective monarchy persisted into the eighteenth century.
An elective monarchy, much modified in its later form, survived till the last century in Poland, and the most august throne in Europe, that of the Empire, of the Roman or German Empire, was till the beginning of the present century open in theory, as Mr.
Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated
Poland, cited as a historical example of a nation justly resisting impositions by monarchs, analogized to a state resisting congress.
and may as justly be resisted, as Poland resisted the impositions of monarchs legislating for their own benefit.