Sejm session

The Sejm session lasted fifteen days, and was convened every two years.

Piattoli was, finally, involved in the final preparations for the vote that took place during the Sejm session on May 3.

This Royal Council of 16 senators was elected every two years during the Sejm session.

Owing to his experience and authority, the Sejm session in 1670 was not broken like the two sessions before, which were aborted by a veto.

Ministers would be nominated by the king during a sejm session; the sejm could remove them through a no confidence vote.

Duration and frequencies of the sejms changed over time, with the six-week sejm session convened every two years being most common.

Only 8 out of 18 Sejm sessions during the reign of Augustus II passed legislation.

Jędruch, who classifies the regular general sejm session as ordinary, in addition to the convocation, election and coronation sessions, also distinguished the following additional types:

The Senate had a suspensive veto over the laws that Sejm passed, applicable till the next Sejm session, when it could be overruled.

Regarded as a courteous and educated man, Koniecpolski participated in all the Sejm sessions that he could, though he rarely spoke publicly due to his stutter.

Because of the chaos sown by the veto provision, under Augustus III (1733-63) only one of the thirteen sejm sessions ran to an orderly adjournment.

The act of Nihil novi was signed by King Alexander Jagiellon on May 3, 1505, during a Sejm session held at the royal castle in Radom.

For example, the larger cities would be able to send limited representations to sejm sessions, or, what was found by the detractors to be particularly offensive, mixed nobility-peasant marriages would be allowed.

Barbara Blida, who was 57 years old at the time of her reported suicide, became the top news item in the Polish media that day, and sparked many comments and controversies, which were also voiced during a special Sejm session.

After a dispute with Jay over finances, Littlepage left for Paris, and from there, with the Prince of Nassau, he traveled to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, where he visited the Sejm session that took place in Grodno in 1784.

In the first half of the 18th century, it became increasingly common for Sejm sessions to be broken up by liberum veto, as the Commonwealth's neighbours - chiefly Russia and Prussia - found this a useful tool to frustrate attempts at reforming and strengthening the Commonwealth.