NHD Topic

My NHD topic was going to be about health care reforms in the US, but since I realized that this wasn't like Ms. DaQuanno's current event project and that we could do actual history stuff, I really want to change it to "the rights given to citizens of the Polish-Lithuanian Union, or the First Republic of Poland." That would incorporate the rights and responsibilities theme, and I could still give a general report on the Commonwealth. The Commonwealth was pretty unique, since it had a parliament, senate, and king-elect in like the 16th century. They had some early system of Prussian Constitutionalism/constitutional monarchy before that was even really a thing, which is pretty sweet. The nation later made a very liberal constitution, which intimidated its neighbors so much that it was gobbled up in just four years afterwards by a combination of Russia, Austria-Hungary, and Prussia. Poland wouldn't even become a nation again until 1918, but it's people still held on to their culture and heritage regardless. Lithuania was released as well. My family is full Anglo Saxon mode, but I've always felt a strong connection towards Poland, so I'm some kind of spirit Pole. Gaude mater Polonia, gaude!