Laws created by the Great Sejm in 1791 and 1792 alongside the constitution

Apart from the Constitution of May 3, the achievement of the Four-Year Sejm, or the Great Sejm of 1788–1792 included a group of laws which, together with the Constitution, were to form the principal framework of the legal system of the reformed Republic. These laws concerned the legal situation of the townspeople, the range of the direct democracy (the law on sejmiki, or local parliaments), the functioning of the Sejm, the relation between the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (uniform state), the administration of justice, the army, the police, and the tax system. The outbreak of the Polish-Russian war caused the suspension of the Sejm proceedings, and the King’s joining the Targowica Confederation, as well as the subsequent defeat, squandered the legislative efforts of the Great Sejm and its attempt at a general reform of the political system and law of Polan