Constitutions of Selected European Free Cities 1806–1954. Source Texts
Recently, two monographs have been published that are directly related to the research topic. The purpose of their writing was to supplement the existing Polish and European literature concerning the political history and organization of those European Free Cities which significantly influenced the development of the political and socio-economic relations of the continent over 150 years of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Closer attention to the above-mentioned subject has become urgent, especially due to the lack of relevant studies in European literature, which has been examined only fragmentarily. The emergence of free cities, sometimes also referred to as “countries”in Europe, was, of course, with the exception of Germany, mainly the effect of inter-empire or inter-state cooperation in order to prevent political and national conflicts by establishing a new European order to prevent such conflicts in the future (such as at the Vienna Congress, and Versailles and Potsdam). As it turned out, the adopted decisions were temporary, and their durations lasted from several to several dozen years. Each of them promulgated their own constitution at that time, the texts of which will be published in a separate publication.
