Offices in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Organizational and administrative structure of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article discusses the organizational and administrative structure of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth was a confederative mixed monarchy of the period 1569–1795, comprising the Kingdom of Poland, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and their fiefs. The Commonwealth was governed by the Parliament (Sejm) consisting of the King, the King-appointed Senate (Voivodes, Castellans, Ministers, Bishops) and the rest of hereditary nobility either in person or through the Lower Sejm (consisting of deputies representing their lands). The nobility's constitutional domination of the state made the King very weak and the commoners (burgesses and peasants) almost entirely unrepresented in the Commonwealth's political system.