TY - JOUR
TI - The Amendment of August 1926 to the first Polish Constitution of the Second Republic
AU - Kowalski, Grzegorz M.
TI - The Amendment of August 1926 to the first Polish Constitution of the Second Republic
AB - On the political-legal plane, the direct consequence of the May coup organized by Józef Piłsudski in 1926 was an amendment of the March constitution of 1921. The above amendment was commonly referred to as the August amendment from the name of the month in which the two laws changing the constitution had been passed (2 August 1926). The core of the August amendment consisted in a strengthening of the position of the executive organs of the state at the expense of the Diet and the senate. The president obtained the right to dissolve parliament before the end of its term, following the motion of the ministers’ council. Moreover, the president obtained the prerogatives to pass resolutions with the power of parliamentary laws and obtained new budgetary prerogatives. Parliament, on the other hand, became restricted as regards its powers to pass a no confidence vote towards the Ministers’ Council or any individual minister. The political conceptions implemented by the interwar government aimed at doing away with the principle of a tri-partite division of state power in favor of a concentration of power in the hands of the state’s president. The above conception had been fully realized in the new constitution of the Republic of Poland of 1935.
VL - Tom 7 (2014)
IS - Tom 7, Zeszyt 2
PY - 2014
SN - 2084-4115
C1 - 2084-4131
SP - 317
EP - 322
DO - 10.4467/20844131KS.14.022.2263
UR - https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/kshpp/artykul/the-amendment-of-august-1926-to-the-first-polish-constitution-of-the-second-republic
KW - Konstytucja Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej z 17 III 1921 roku
KW - Konstytucja marcowa
KW - nowela z 2 VIII 1926 roku
KW - „nowela sierpniowa”
KW - konstytucjonalizm II Rzeczypospolitej
KW - prezydent Rzeczypospolitej
KW - władza wykonawcza
KW - autorytaryzm