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 == Government Act == 
 Dear Peter, 

 In your ""Note on Polish constitution definition,"" you overexerted yourself in seeking to justify why the May 3rd Constitution was adopted as a ""Government Act"" rather than as a ""Constitution.""  The body of the Government Act itself (i.e. the text of the Constitution) refers to itself repeatedly as ""this Constitution,"" as inspection of either the Polish original or its English translation (on Wikisource) will show. 

 The reason that the document went through the Sejm as the ""Government Act"" was simply that the Polish May 3rd Constitution, contrary to the way the U.S. Constitution came into force, was voted in as an ordinary act, instituting a framework of government.   "