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Nihil Novi

1505 · 16th century

Nihil Novi was a constitutional act adopted in Poland in 1505, whose name means nothing new. It established that no new law could be enacted without the consent of the noble parliament, the Sejm. It was a foundation of the noble democracy and limited monarchy of the later Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Nihil Novi. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/nihil-novi
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