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Golden Liberty
Golden Liberty
(; , ), sometimes referred to as
Golden Freedoms
,
Nobles' Democracy
or
Nobles' Commonwealth
( or
Zlota wolnosc szlachecka
, ) was a unique
political system
in the
Kingdom of Poland
and, after the
Union of Lublin
(1569), in the
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
. Under that system, all nobles (
szlachta
), regardless of rank or economic status, were considered to have equal legal status and enjoyed
extensive legal rights and privileges
. The nobility controlled the legislature (the
Sejm
— the Polish
parliament
) and the Commonwealth's
elected king
.
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