European and Polish constitutionalism in the aftermath of WW1

Collapse of the Empires and European constitutionalism in the first post-war period; 1.1. The rich constitutional cycle of the first post-war period; 1.2. The different rationalizations of parliamentarism; 1.3. Failures and authoritarian degenerations; 2. The Polish constitutional traditions from the Middle Ages to the era of partitions; 3. The 1921 Constitution: national traditions, foreign models and authoritarian degenerations; 3.1 State weakness and political context in 1920s’ Poland; 3.2. The ‘small constitution’ of 1919 and the constituent debate; 3.3 The 1921 Constitution: general characteristics; 3.4 The 1921 Constitution: reference models and implementation dynamics; 3.5. The constitutional amendment of 1926 and the 1935 Constitution; 4. The Polish constitutional traditions and the current constitutional framework