The ideal of the commonwealth -- Calls for a moral revival -- Government of local worthies -- Proposals for radical reform -- The Sejm of 1712-13 -- The Confederation of Tarnogród -- A reforming moment? -- Wider contexts
Summary
This title provides a study of the political discourse of the Commonwealth of Poland-Lithuania in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, arguing that Polish-Lithuanian politicians saw their political system primarily in moral terms, setting them apart from the growing tradition of self-interested republican politics
