liberum veto

His plan aimed at the restoration of the royal prerogative and the abolition of the liberum veto, an abuse that made any durable improvement impossible.

The liberum veto was abolished; confederations were prohibited as inconsistent with the genius of the constitution; and it was provided, that, after every quarter of a century, the constitution should be revised and amended.

Indeed, the days of the liberum veto were necessarily the days of legalized insurrection.

Its first decree abolished the liberum veto.

The Diet was to be confederated, that the Poles might be deprived of their last resource, the liberum veto.