The issue of providing military assistance in the course of “real estate foreclosure” at the Sejm sessions in the period of Stanisław II August Poniatowski

Abstract

The topic of the article is the issue of military assistance provided in the course of executions of court judgments. Due to the fact that the Sejm was the legislative body of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the paper discusses the course of parliamentary debates concerning this issue during the reign of Stanisław II August Poniatowski. The article presents the enacted parliamentary constitutions, royal projects, and analyzes the
deputies’ speeches. Moreover, it delineates the process of changes in the Enlightenment, which resulted in bringing order to the issue of sending soldiers on the so-called “tradition.”