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Excerpt from The Population of the Polish CommonwealthIt is with the greatest satisfaction that I take the opportunity of writing a few words of introduction to Mr. A. E. Gunieys pamphlet. The author has given to the British public a most accurateMoreExcerpt from The Population of the Polish CommonwealthIt is with the greatest satisfaction that I take the opportunity of writing a few words of introduction to Mr. A. E. Gunieys pamphlet. The author has given to the British public a most accurate and at the same time a very vivid account of the population of the former Polish Commonwealth, a nation which notwithstanding its indisputable right to existence, the world at large appears to have forgotten.What, then, was this Commonwealth, which 120 years ago had to yield to superior forces, whose very name was struck out from the map of Europe?It was a first-class political Power, extremely original in its structure, and in respect of its constitutional arrangements and progressive policy much ahead of the other continental States.To Great Britain alone and to her constitutional development Poland must yield a place- hut though the Polish Commonwealth did not possess such a well-organized State machinery as this country, yet she herself worked out quite independently her own Habeas Corpus Act, her limitations of the royal prerogative, a scheme of popular legislation, etc.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully- any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. The Population of the Polish Commonwealth by Arthur E Gurney
