Sejm of the Duchy of Warsaw
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Sejm of the Duchy of Warsaw Sejm Księstwa Warszawskiego |
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| Founded | 1807 |
| Disbanded | 1815 |
| Preceded by | General Sejm |
| Succeeded by | Sejm of Congress Poland |
| Seats | 100 (later 166) deputies, 6 (later 10) senators |
Sejm of the Duchy of Warsaw (Polish: Sejm Księstwa Warszawskiego) was the parliament of the Duchy of Warsaw. It was created in 1807 by Napoleon, who granted a new constitution to the recently created Duchy. It had limited competences, including having no legislative initiative. It met three times: for regular sessions in 1809 and 1811, and for an extraordinary session in 1812. In the history of Polish parliament, it succeeded the Sejm of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and was followed by the Sejm of the Congress Poland.
In 1807 Napoleon created the Duchy of Warsaw and granted it a constitution. Like with all Napoleonic legislatures, it was inferior in political power to executive by design.
The Sejm had met three times: for regular sessions in 1809 and 1811, and for an extraordinary session of 1812. The Sejm was mainly occupied with administration and financial matters; its final act, in 1812, was to create the last Polish confederation, the General Confederation of the Kingdom of Poland.
The Sejm was composed of two chambers: a chamber of deputies and a senate. The chamber of deputies was composed of 100 deputies, in 1810 increased to 166. The initial 100 was composed of 60 deputies (after 1810, 100) elected from the ranks of the nobility (szlachta) during the sessions of the local parliaments (sejmiks), and 40 non-noble deputies (after 1810, 66), as well as members of the Council of State. The deputy candidates had to be 24 years or older, and government officials, priests or officers in active military service were not eligible for candidacy. They were elected for a nine-year term of office, in three tranches (elections for a third of the deputies were to be held every three years).
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