Nihil Novi

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A plaque commemorating the “Nihil Novi” constitution (Radom Royal Castle).

Nihil Novi (in German Nothing New ) was a constitution of the Polish Diet in Radom 1505, in which King Alexander of Poland granted the Chamber of Couriers the right to legislate (“ut deinceps futuris temporibus perpetuis, nihil novi constitui debeat per Nos et successores Nostros sine communi Consiliariorum et Nuntiorum Terrestrium consensu ”).

"Nihil novi" suspended Mielnik's statute of 1501, which gave the Senate the right to dismiss obedience in the event of a breach of duty by the monarch, and legalized the Sejm as a bicameral assembly made up of three political classes - the monarch , the senators and the in the chamber of messengers elected representatives of the nobility - should exist, and moved the main part of the Sejm's deliberations from the Senate to the chamber of messengers. The “Nihil Novi” constitution became one of the most important pillars of the Polish-Lithuanian “aristocratic democracy” .

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