Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p The liberum veto (Latin for "the free veto") was a parliamentary device in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. It was a form of unanimity voting rule that allowed any member of the Sejm (legislature) to force an immediate end to the current session and nullify any legislation that had already been passed at the session by shouting Nie pozwalam! (Polish: "I do not allow!"). The rule was in place from the mid-16th to the late 18th century in the Sejm's parliamentary deliberations.. }
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- Liberum_veto comment "The liberum veto (Latin for "the free veto") was a parliamentary device in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. It was a form of unanimity voting rule that allowed any member of the Sejm (legislature) to force an immediate end to the current session and nullify any legislation that had already been passed at the session by shouting Nie pozwalam! (Polish: "I do not allow!"). The rule was in place from the mid-16th to the late 18th century in the Sejm's parliamentary deliberations.".