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In the first half of the thirteenth century, it was customary to examine these issues in the context of a treatise on what became known as liberum arbitrium.
Philip the Chancellor McCluskey, Colleen 2007
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The first part of the phrase, "liberum," is uncontroversial; it simply means "free."
Philip the Chancellor McCluskey, Colleen 2007
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Another thing: by the time of the partitions, the Poles had come up with a solution to the liberum veto through the mechanism of the confederated sejm, in which there was no veto (sort of like a modified Committee of the Whole to expedite parliamentary business).
Matthew Yglesias » 18th Century Polish Strategic Dilemmas 2010
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That they could not maintain an independent state is a pretty strong sign that something was badly off, and pretty much everybody agrees it was this liberum veto.
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A hundred years later the paralytic effects of the liberum veto became all too evident.
Matthew Yglesias » 18th Century Polish Strategic Dilemmas 2010
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By the time they figured out a workaround, it was too late – the whole country was under Russian domination, and the Russians were strong enough to prevent any useful reforms even without the liberum veto.
Matthew Yglesias » 18th Century Polish Strategic Dilemmas 2010
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Well, it is widely accepted among historians that it was this liberum veto that underlay the defeat and partition of Poland at the end of the 18th century.
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By the way, it's no argument to say that most historians blame the liberum veto, because their wisdom is precisely what is in question.
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The liberum veto, which allowed any representative to dissolve the Sejm and even to annul its previous decisions, was applied with growing recklessness in the 17th and 18th cent.
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I'd say that the liberum veto was not a great idea, but a much bigger problem for the Poles was the lack of defensible borders.
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