Katowice Authorities Do Not Want a Mural Reading ‘Constitution’.

Foundation acts are often traces of desperation, signs of crisis. Fortunately, it happens that they are symptoms of his solstice, his over-overcoming, leaving him behind, in the dead realm of historical knowledge, which only Benjamin's looks at "Angel of History”. It would be fortunate, it would be wonderful if, using the May Third dawn of freedom and perfect conditions of the air, a ghost flew directly into the heads of scholars of women and husbands in the Republic of Poland thinking about the role of the constitution and brought like a serviceable courier a strong conviction that it was high time to slightly change the fairy tale and start talking about kinship, about brotherhood, about the common sense of the Constitution of May 3 and the Bender Constitution, written by the Cossack Hetman Filip Orlik in 1710. Orlik calligraphed articles "Pacta et constitutiones legum libertatumque exercitus zaporoviensis" Determining the inalienable rights of the Ruthenian people in fact just after the defeat near Poltava. Our third of May was created at a time when it was a little too late for national sobriety. 

It is extremely characteristic that any type of net will inform you about the English "Magna Charta Libertatum" of 1215 about the "first written" American constitution of 1787, with a little perseverance you will learn about the constitution of Corsica from 1755 aimed at the Genoese, but you will not find too many places emphasizing that the libertarian acts, based on the statutory law, which applies to the entire community, appeared in its eastern part first in Bendery, then in Warsaw.

The current effort, tens of thousands of dead, oblige to effectively and loudly start reminding the West of its late this declaratively important area of "development". With a very long, lasting at least until the Bismarck era, if not to the 20th century "professional elites" (Homo faber) fascination with the efficiency of "enlightened absolutism". 

In Orlik's case, the guarantor of the Cossack constitution was to be the Swedish king, i.e. someone who, completely without a sense of Eastern realities and distances, lost the decisive battle with Peter I and saved himself by fleeing to Turkey. Ukraine today, like Orlik's Cossacks at the beginning of the 18th century, would not have been able to stop the Russian empire without help from the West. However, it is worth separating the aid from the sovereign articulation of future rights within this or that European community of equals. Yes, capital, servers, and even "know-how" will come from the wealthy lands of the West, but why should this again be more important than constitutional declarations, should it be the most important, decisive, technical protocol describing the functioning of Europe in the 21st century? 

COnstitutio Will remain the Latin word, but for the word to be universally understood, it must become much more Eastern. The role of such politicized historical bodies in the Republic of Poland is significant in this matter.