The Polish constitution may be your example, when you warn people against error. The Constitutional Tribunal are here resource, as the country legal authority to present their acknowledged translation to English:
■the Polish Constitution in English;
■the Polish Constitution in Polish.
To be constructive, I have prepared my exercise at democracy.
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Exercise at Democracy
The real thing
Polish has words as motherland or fatherland, macierz and ojczyzna, yet it does not have a word as homeland. It has not been the homeliest of countries, where ■The toolbox Poland may be of explanatory value.
In their approved English, the Tribunal have the Polish fatherland in the place of homeland.
Not really a republic
The law translates rzeczpospolita, verbatim, a commonplace thing, into the English republic, though the first head of state was ■king Jagełło for Poland and Lithuania. The word pospolity meant commonplace already then, about people and things. The name of the country came from the Polish monarchic caste who were later authors of its partitioning (see ■Toolbox Poland).
■Republika is not the name of the country, and the form of government is not republican.
No Tripartite
The President is the supreme representative of Poland and the guarantor of the continuity of State authority, that is, since the time of the king. The word “executive” occurs only in the phrase “executive orders”, in Chapter 5.
Article 169 creates a legislative-executive. Polish local self-governments are to have constitutive and executive organs.
The central Executive may shut down the Legislative (article 155). It is enough they present disagreeable candidates.
“In the event that a vote of confidence has not been granted to the Council of Ministers pursuant to para. 1, the President of the Republic shall shorten the term of office of the Sejm and order elections to be held.”
No supreme law of the land
Chapter 1 Article 4 says, the nation is the supreme power, and the people can exercise that power directly. The 1997 is not the supreme law of the land; it is only a basic law. Amendments become statutes, says article 235.
No bill of rights
Establishment of religion requires an agreement with the Council of Ministers (Article 25.5).
Article 31.1 vests local self-governments with the power to pass statutes that may change or limit citizen exercise of constitutional freedoms and rights. Article 62 allows limitation of ownership.
Under martial law, the President may issue regulations “of the force of” statutes (article 234); the Parliament must approve at their next sitting.
The 1997 protects only the “essence of freedoms and rights”, which remains unexplained (31.3).
Members of the Parliament are not legally liable regardless of the breach, unless the Parliament agrees to their prosecution (article 144).
Citizens are innocent until the guilt is determined (article 42.3).
Polish citizenship cannot be lost, yet it may be renounced only if the President allows (Article 34.2).
Gender bias
Voluntary consent (article 39), unlawful detention (article 41), freedom of conscience (article 48), or choice of occupation (article 65) — all occur with the masculine, his.
The US constitution was approved in the 18th century, when such was the custom everywhere in the world; today it is bias also in the USA.
Country finance centralized redistribution
The “social market economy” (article 20) allows that local self-governments include subsidies and grants from the State Budget with their revenues (167.2).
A statue may establish any monopoly (article 216.3).
The National Bank is to issue money, decide the monetary policy and the value of the currency, says Article 227.
The exercise
In my exercise, I thought the Constitution should forbid in country administration any names for places or addresses that derive from practices demeaning to human rights. Katowice are a Polish classic here, as most people would derive the name from a word for a torturer-executioner in Polish, kat.
Historically, some such executioner establishment was there, under the Polish monarchy. You may find resources that tell, kat was a word for a settler, only it was originally kąt, like a Polish word for niches and nooks.
It would have been then they lost the ą in Śląsk, the region for the town. Most of the ą and ę arrived from France around the time of king Jagiełło. Any etymology I have been able to find says, kat has been for torturer-executioner.
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Exercise at Democracy
Places on Earth, government as by the act of 1997 would gain recognition for a mobocracy. It has many features of the Polish “golden liberty”: there is no supreme law, country finance can be redistributed, and citizen privileges depend on resolves for the meaning of the “essence”.
Poland has fallen a few times in history already and vanished from the map, primarily owing to the “golden liberty”: it can be attractive only to those who hope to be “the right people at the right places”, in the redistribution for government-driven income and status.
Every year, fewer Polish children are born. Many people emigrate. The population has been shrinking by some 15 hundred thousand a year. By 2050, it might become some 31 millions, 40% of the people being 60+ years old. Robotics likely will put the country to another test.
Constitutional parity for cash
When robots do most the jobs, people still need money.
The “golden liberty” may successfully discourage any care. Today already, young Polish people may read the civics and think if there is anything worth trust.
Feel welcome to read and discuss,
■Republika Constitution in English;
■Republika Constitution in Polish.