Geneza uchwalenia Konstytucji Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej z 2 kwietnia 1997 roku

Abstract

The aim of this article was to present a synthetic presentation of the circumstances accompanying the system-forming process in Poland, undergoing the socioeconomic and political transformation since 1989. Particular emphasis was placed on the description of political conditions and the main problems related to the postulated Polish system during the work of the Constitutional Committe of the National Assembly, composed of 46 deputies of the Sejm of the second term of office and the Senate of the third term of office 1993–1997. The research for this article was carried out thanks to the use of the following methods: historical and legal, formal and the analysis of scientific literature related to the subject of the article. As a result of the research methods used, the complexity of the system-building process in Poland in the mid 1990s was shown, i.e. in a country where the adoption of a new constitution was necessary not only for axiological reason, but also due to the efforts to integrate with the European Union and NATO. The essential paradox, however, was that Poland was the first country to begin the process of abandoning communism, and as – almost – the last of the countries hitherto located behind the “iron curtain”, it adopted a new constitution. The “current – political” reasons for this state of affairs are presented in the article below.

Keywords

• Constitution
• Poland
• political transformation