Golden Liberty: Facts

Facts on topics related to Golden Liberty

Archbishop of Toledo Pedro Segura y Sáenz had to leave the city during the Spanish Civil War, because he denounced the Republican government and extolled monarchy?
Gunnar Heiberg advocated dissolution of the union between Norway and Sweden, but was dissatisfied that Norway subsequently became a monarchy?

the Brothers Grimm were amongst the Göttingen Seven, university teachers who protested changes to the constitution of the Kingdom of Hanover in 1837?
the Constitution of the Kingdom of Poland of 1815, considered among the most liberal constitutions of its time, was increasingly disregarded by the Polish government, leading to the November Uprising of 1830?
the Singapore Declaration, one of the two most important constitutional documents of the Commonwealth of Nations, is thought to have been unenforceable until the Harare Declaration twenty years later?

Pedro Vuskovic's plan to move Chile's economy to a socialist model by democratic means led to runaway inflation and economic recession?
Dashiin Byambasüren was the first democratically elected Prime Minister of Mongolia?
Golden Liberty, the political system of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, similar to federation and democracy, became ineffective when faced with the surrounding mon archies?
José Ortega Spottorno established the now-bestselling Spanish newspaper El Pais to advance liberal values at a time when the country was undergoing a painful transition from fascism to democracy?
William Phelps was foreman of the first grand jury in colonial America and played a key role in establishing the first written democratic town government at Windsor, Connecticut, in 1657?
as the world's third largest democracy, Indonesia's 2004 legislative election was the most complicated in the world?
the Social Democrats under leader Hjalmar Branting won the Swedish general election in 1921, the first fully democratic parliamentary election in Sweden?
under the Sino-Portuguese Joint Declaration on the Question of Macau, Communist China would guarantee complete autonomy and democratic self-government in Macau up to 2049?

Golden Liberty, the political system of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, similar to federation and democracy, became ineffective when faced with the surrounding mon archies?
Juan Bravo Murillo tried but failed to impose an absolutist constitution on Spain in 1852?
the Danish Monarchy's status was changed from absolute to constitutional on 5 June 1849?

despite historical border disputes, Poland–Czechoslovakia relations were friendly, and during WWII their governments-in-exile considered forming a confederation?

Golden Liberty, the political system of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, similar to federation and democracy, became ineffective when faced with the surrounding mon archies?