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| | Sejm - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | These sessions were attended by the chancellor, the Speaker of the Sejm and deputations from the Sejm and the Senate. | | | From the end of the 16th century, the constitutions they signed were printed, stamped with the royal seal and bearing the signatures of the Sejm speaker and the chancellor sent to the chancelleries of the municipal councils of all voivodships of the Crown and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. | | | In 1989, the Senate was reinstated as the upper house of a bicameral National Assembly, with the Sejm becoming the lower house. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sejm
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| | The Polish Government, Sejm and Senat |
| | The Council of Ministers is answerable to the Sejm for its actions and ministers and the prime minister are answerable to the State Tribunal. | | | The composition of the Council of Ministers is forwarded by the prime minister with the co-participation of the president and the Sejm. | | | Legislative power in Poland is exercised in Poland by the bicameral parliament: the Sejm - the lower chamber with 460 members, and the Senate - a chamber of 100 senators. |
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http://www.masterpage.com.pl/resource/politicalstructure.html
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| | 500 Years of Poland's Sejm - The Sejm Chronicle Special Edition |
| | The inaugural sitting of the Sejm was held on October 14 and that of the Senate on October 15, 1993. | | | The 10th Sejm's decision to disband and shorten its term and the passing of a new electoral law on June 28, 1991, made it possible for the President to order the first fully democratic parliamentary elections in postwar Poland. | | | A new Sejm and Senate of the Republic of Poland were elected on September 19, 1993. |
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http://kronika.sejm.gov.pl/kronika.97/text/spec/spec0.htm
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| | Sejm of the Republic of Poland |
| | The dominance of the Sejm over the Senate in the legislative process is constitutionally guaranteed; the Sejm may also (by a three-fifths majority vote, in the presence of at least half of the statutory number of Deputies) reenact a statute which has been referred by the President for reconsideration. | | | The Constitution vests legislative power in the Sejm and the Senate, executive power in the President and the Council of Ministers, and judicial power - in courts and tribunals. | | | The Sejm and the Senate, sitting jointly in the instances provided for in the Constitution, act as the National Assembly. |
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http://www.sejm.gov.pl/english/sejm/sejm.htm
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| | East European Constitutional Review |
| | The justices of the Constitutional Tribunal and the Tribunal of State are appointed by the Sejm. | | | Only during the final stage of the Constitution’s completion was the president given the authority to appoint the president and vice president of the Constitutional Tribunal, the first president of the Supreme Court, and the first president of the Chief Administrative Court. | | | In this case, the president is obliged to appoint a cabinet proposed by the prime minister. |
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http://www.law.nyu.edu/eecr/vol6num2/feature/presidency.html
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| | Poland - Open Encyclopedia |
| | The president appoints the cabinet according to the proposals of the prime minister, typically from the majority coalition in the bicameral legislature's lower house (the Sejm). | | | The citizens of Poland elect a parliament, the National Assembly (Polish Zgromadzenie Narodowe), consisting of 460 members of the Lower House (Sejm) and 100 members of the Senate (Senat), chosen by a proportional vote on a provincial basis to serve four-year terms. | | | The Ombudsman has the duty of guarding the observance and implementation of the rights and liberties of the human being and of the citizen, the law and principles of community life and social justice. |
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http://open-encyclopedia.com/Poland
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| | The Sejm Library |
| | The Sejm Library is an organisational unit of the Sejm Chancellery. | | | The Sejm Library was established at the end of 1919. | | | It served a single-chamber Parliament and was named "The Sejm Library". |
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http://www.senat.gov.pl/k5eng/historia/noty/8a.htm
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| | Constitution of 1921 |
| | The organs of the nation are: in the domain of legislation, the Sejm ad the Senate; in the domain of executive power, the President of the Republic, jointly with the responsible ministers; in the domain of the administration of justice, independent courts. | | | The election of the members of the Court of State is carried out by the Sejm and the Senate immediately upon the election of their officers for the whole term of the Sejm. | | | In case the office of the President of the Republic becomes vacant, the Sejm and the Senate, upon the invitation of the Marshal of the Sejm and under his chairmanship, at once unite automatically in a National Assembly for the purpose of electing a President. |
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http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~zbigniew/Constitutions/k1921.E.html
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| | Sejm of the Republic of Poland |
| | The existing Act on Elections to the Sejm of Republic of Poland and to the Senate of the Republic of Poland guarantees freedom for conduct of electoral campaigning. | | | According to the Constitution, the Sejm is composed of 460 Deputies chosen for a 4-year term of office. | | | Terms of offices of the Sejm and the Senate begin on the day on which the Sejm assembles for its first sitting and continue the day preceding the assembly of the Sejm of the succeeding term of office. |
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http://www.sejm.gov.pl/english/sejm/pos.htm
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| | FREE In-depth report - Sejm - Poland |
| | The marshal and three vice marshals constitute the Presidium of the Sejm, the chief duties of which are to oversee accomplishment of the Sejm agenda, to coordinate the activities of the parliamentary commissions, and to represent the Sejm in external affairs. | | | During this period, the president may perform the duties of the prime minister, but the Sejm cannot be dismissed, and changes cannot be made to the constitution or electoral law. | | | The constitution empowers the president to declare a threemonth state of emergency in the event of parliamentary paralysis. |
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http://www.exploitz.com/Poland-Sejm-cg.php
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| | Constitution of May 3, 1791 |
| | We stipulate that senators and ministers shall not have a votum decisivum (decisive vote) in the sejm in matters concerning their conduct of office, either in the guardianship or in commission, and at such time shall have a seat in the senate only to give explication upon demand of the sejm. | | | The duty of the chamber of senators, comprising bishops, province chiefs (wojewodowie), castellans and ministers, presided over by the king, who is entilled to cast a votum (vote) of his own, and secondly to resolve paritas (an equal division of votes) either in person or by sending his judgment to that chamber, is: Primo. | | | A sejm shall comprise the number of persons provided by lower law, both in the chamber of deputies and in the chamber of senators. |
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http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~zbigniew/Constitutions/k3m.E.06.html
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| | ICL - Poland - Constitution |
| | (1) In instances specified in the Constitution, the House of Representatives (Sejm) and the Senate sitting in joint session, shall act as the National Assembly, with the Marshal of the House of Representatives (Sejm) presiding or, in his absence the Marshal of the Senate. | | | (1) The Supreme Court shall adjudicate upon the validity of the elections to the House of Representatives (Sejm) and the Senate. | | | A vote of confidence in the Council of Ministers shall be granted by a majority of votes in the presence of at least half of the statutory number of Deputies. |
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http://www.oefre.unibe.ch/law/icl/pl00000_.html
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| | The Act of 28th May |
| | 1, a report on the elections to the Marshal of the Sejm and to the Supreme Court. | | | A deputy to the Sejm may be elected from amongst those Polish citizens who have the right to vote and who are at least 21 years of age on the election day and permanently reside on the territory of the Republic of Poland for at least 5 years (eligibility). | | | A protest against validity of elections in a constituency or against the election of a deputy to the Sejm may be lodged by a voter whose name, on the day of election, was placed in the roll of voters in one of the polling districts in the territory of a given constituency. |
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http://www2.essex.ac.uk/elect/electjp/pl_el9193.htm
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| | CNN.com - World - Election Watch |
| | Elections were last held on September 19, 1993 for the Senat and Sejm. | | | The Sejm has 460 seats serving four year terms, barring dissolution. | | | Poland has a bicameral parliament composed of the Senat (Senate) and the Sejm (National Assembly). |
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http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/election.watch/europe/poland.html
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| | Sejm Erdeki |
| | For example, king Marcin I the Snorist filled the Kąziel almost entirely with members of his own family, while his successor, August VI the Henpecked, evoked quite a scandal when he first appointed his driver, subsequently his cook, and at last three of his mistresses members of the Kąziel. | | | The table below shows the composition of the Sejm, after the general elections of 2001. | | | At several occasions, projects have been launched to introduce an electional barrier of 1, 2, 2½, 5 or even 10 % in order to achieve more political stability, but the majority necessary for such a law was never found. |
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http://www.geocities.com/wenedyk/ib/rtc_sejm.html
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| | Poland Election Law for the Sejm - 1991 |
| | On examining the accusations contained in the complaint and the opinion of the Supreme Court, the Sejm decides on the validity of the election of the deputy. | | | In declaring the elections of a deputy to be invalid, the Sejm at the same time decides on the conduct of by-elections and the extent of the invalidation. | | | In the first elections to the Sejm conducted pursuant to the provisions of this law the president shall, within seven days from the date of publication of this law, appoint the persons referred to in Article 53 to membership in the State Electoral Commission and convene its first session. |
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http://www2.essex.ac.uk/elect/electjp/pl_el91.htm
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| | Sarmatian Review XIII.2: Ludwikowski |
| | This immensely increased the role of the Senate, because a support of one-third of the Sejm's deputies would be sufficient to adopt the Senate's amendments. | | | This time the role of the Senate was reduced: if a one-third plus one of the Sejm deputies voted against the adoption of the Senate's constitutional amendment, the SenateÕs amending action would be annulled. | | | The procedure of the Sejm's voting over the Senate amendments became a matter of major controversy. |
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http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~sarmatia/493/ludwik.html
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| | Poland - THE CONSTITUTION |
| | For that purpose, the Supreme Control Chamber (Najwyzsza Izba Kontroli-- NIK--chief agency for oversight of the government's economic and administrative activities) was transferred from the Council of Ministers to the Sejm. | | | Power would be distributed among the houses of parliament and the newly established Office of the President, which was to assume many of the executive powers previously held by the Council of State. | | | Between 1952 and 1973, the PZPR-dominated Sejm approved ten constitutional amendments concerning the organization and function of central and local government bodies. |
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http://countrystudies.us/poland/71.htm
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| | Dia-pozytyw: DICTIONARY |
| | Beginning in 1623, two Jewish Sejms existed: the Vaad Arba Artsot, which encompassed the Crown lands, and the Vaad Medinat Lita [Hebrew, Council of the State of Lithuania], which was the Sejm of Lithuanian Jews. | | | This led to the creation of the Jewish Sejm, which represented the Communities of four lands: Wielkopolska, Malopolska, Rus and Lithuania. | | | These meetings eventually became congresses that would convene at regular intervals. |
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http://www.diapozytyw.pl/en/site/slownik_terminow/sejm_zydowski
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| | EUROPA - Enlargement : Candidate Country: Poland |
| | The Constitution passed in 1997 vests legislative power in the Sejm and the Senate The 460 Deputies of the Sejm are elected via party lists and serve a four years term. | | | The Sejm plays the dominant role in the legislative process and has the right to supervise the Council of Ministers. | | | The second chamber, the Senate can amend or reject laws passed by the Sejm. |
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http://europa.eu.int/comm/enlargement/poland
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| | 131 (1) (3.) and (2) of the Act on Elections to the Sejm of the Republic of Poland): unilateral declaration of intent by the deputy; the seat becomes vacant; the vacancy is pronounced by the Marshall of the Sejm | | | 124 to 130 of the Act on Elections to the Sejm of the Republic of Poland) | | | 131 (1) (4.) of the Act on Elections to the Sejm of the Republic of Poland) |
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http://www.ipu.org/parline-e/reports/2255_D.htm
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| | Sejm Wielki - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Sejm Czteroletni (Four-Year Sejm, also known as Sejm Wielki, the Great Sejm) was a Sejm of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth held in Warsaw, inaugurated in 1788. | | | Its greatest achievement was adoption of the May 3rd Constitution in 1791. | | | The "Great" or Four-Year Sejm of 1788–1792 adopts the May 3rd Constitution at Warsaw's Royal Castle (rebuilt in the 1970s after its deliberate destruction by the Germans in World War II). |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sejm_Wielki
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| | The World Factbook 2004 -- Poland |
| | cabinet: Council of Ministers responsible to the prime minister and the Sejm; the prime minister proposes, the president appoints, and the Sejm approves the Council of Ministers | | | Supreme Court (judges are appointed by the president on the recommendation of the National Council of the Judiciary for an indefinite period); Constitutional Tribunal (judges are chosen by the Sejm for nine-year terms) | | | elections: Sejm elections last held 23 September 2001 (next to be held by September 2005); Senate - last held 23 September 2001 (next to be held by September 2005) |
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http://www.brainyatlas.com/geos/pl.html
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| | Warsaw Voice - Sejm On-Line |
| | This includes the history of the Sejm, information about the Sejm leadership, parliamentary committees, deputies, parties, and the text of the constitution. | | | Internet kiosks will appear this year in the hall of the Sejm's Office. | | | The latest databases, only recently put into use, include one for Sejm publications and another for the Internet Information System on the State of Law. |
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http://www.warsawvoice.pl/archiwum.phtml/1251
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| | BIS *eng2.html |
| | The genesis of the Sejm Library is linked with the time when after 120 years of partitions Poland regained independence in 1918 and in 1919 the parliamentary elections were held. | | | In 1939 the Library's collection, constantly enriched by publications of the Sejm and Senate as well as by official publications, and by new accessions in law, social sciences, economics and history, amounted to 78,000 volumes. | | | The Library was established at the end of 1919 and, following numerous organizational changes, it began to perform the function of the Sejm and Senate library and archives. |
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http://bib.sejm.gov.pl/witryna/bs-info/eng2.html
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| | Bad Subjects: Sejm Debates on EU Accession |
| | In Poland, it is right-wing nationalists opposing political integration and the former-CP prime minister, Leszek Miller, who went to Barcelona to advocate for on-schedule admission to the European Union. | | | Wrzodak's Sejm speech was broadcast live by the Catholic radio station, Radio Maryja, which apparently found his anti-EU message consonant with its goal of promulgating Catholic values. | | | The Sejm's center and left parties will vote against the land sales referendum, and it is unlikely that these Church-centered right-wing nationalists will carry the parliamentary day. |
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http://bad.eserver.org/reviews/2002/2002-3-17-7.58PM.html
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| | ICAU'95 - Papers - The System of Thesauri in the Sejm Library |
| | The most crucial problem with hierarchical structure was that our library is not only a parliamentary library but, what is more important, the main (leading) law library in Poland and consequently our collections are mainly on law. | | | The reference of the AND type is a non-preferred term leading to more than one preferred terms. | | | Even during the translation it was noticed that not all the hierarchical and association relationships were adequate to Polish (or at least Chancellory of the Sejm) needs. |
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http://www.icau.org/icau/icau95/papers/sejm.htm
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| | Review: Ne nur legendoj, ne nur pri SEJM / Not Just Legends, Not Just About SEJM (Vladimir SAMODAJ) |
| | Samodai begins by discussing his own boyhood in Odessa, where in 1958 he took up the study of Esperanto under the teaching of Aleksei Ilyich Vershinin. | | | The memoir after the SEJM period is quite short in the space of only a few pages we see the well-known "Responsible Secretary" Berioza, the founding of the Association of Soviet Esperantists (1979), the request for association with the Universala Esperanto-Asocio and its failure (because of the appearance of a book review! | | | Mallonga estas la prezento de la naskiĝo de SEJM (Sovetia Esperantista Junulara Movado), kiu prezentas plurajn atestojn pri tiu okazo, verŝajne en 1965. |
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http://donh.best.vwh.net/Esperanto/Literaturo/Recenzoj/nenur.html
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| | Sejm |
| | Desde 1918, el nombre Sejm se ha referido solamente más Bajo del parlamento; la casa superior sigue siendo el senado - Senat. | | | Sejm (pronunciado: el sjm) era el nombre del parlamento polaco antes del vigésimo siglo, o la dieta, que consistió en más Bajo (Izba Poselska) y la casa superior (Senat) y el rey. | | | La historia del Sejm fecha de nuevo a 1493. |
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http://www.yotor.net/wiki/es/se/Sejm.htm
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| | Review: Legendoj pri SEJM / Legends of SEJM (Mikaelo BRONS^TEJN) |
| | This is a book that I can recommend without hesitation to modern young American (Esperanto) activists. | | | En ĉi tiu verkaĵeto, verŝajne jam en la dua eldono, rusa-esperantista bardo Mikaelo Bronŝtejn prezentas siajn memorojn pri la grava kaj interesa agado de SEJM, la Sovetia Esperantista Junulara Movado, inter la sesdekaj kaj okdekaj jaroj. | | | In this little work, apparently already a second edition, Russian-Esperantist bard Mikhail Bronshtein presents his memories about the important and interesting activity of SEJM, the Soviet Esperantist Youth Movement, from the sixties to the eighties. |
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http://donh.best.vwh.net/Esperanto/Literaturo/Recenzoj/sejm.html
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| | Sejm confederado |
| | English version: Confederated sejm Next: Sistema de Euler Up | | | Después de los losts 1764 del veto del liberum su energía destructiva como la institución del sejm confederado llegó a ser más común - tal Sejms no hizo caso del principio de la unanimidad y así de la regla del veto del liberum también. | | | La institución confederada del sejm se desarrolló alternadamente de la tradición anterior del confederatio (una organización militar del szlachta que quiere lograr una puntería política común). |
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http://www.yotor.net/wiki/es/se/Sejm%20confederado.htm
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