Bogusław Miedziński jako współtwórca i propagator założeń konstytucji kwietniowej (1930-1936)
Abstract
Bogusław Miedziński - one of the most famous political activists and publicists of the
interwar period - greatly contributed to the final shape of the April constitution. His role as
a creator of that constitution is so far overlooked by the historians. Miedziński used to be
elected a general budget referent during the third cadence of the Polish parliament and became
the main author of those articles of the constitution that concerned the budget’s matters. Probably it was also him who created the articles connected with the superior authority over
the military forces. A lot of his valuable remarks influenced the final text of the constitution.
Both in parliament and out of it Bogusław Miedziński, played the roll of the defender
of the constitution in the debates with the opposition. He successfully faced his antagonists
who were often even better educated and much more politically experienced than he. As an
editor-in-chief of semi-official governmental newspaper “Gazeta Polska” he contributed much
in popularisation of the ideas of April constitution among public opinion. This article aims
at showing the political tools used by Bogusław Miedziński - as a member of an elite that
governed Poland in 1930s - in his attempts to introduce the reforms of the political system
of the state.
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