Keywords: Konstytucja 3 MajaDYK.jpg Adoption of the Polish Constitution of May 3 1791 The painting depicts King Stanislaus Augustus together with members of the Grand Sejm and inhabitants of Warsaw entering St John's Cathedral in order to swear in the new national constitution just after it had been adopted by the Grand Sejm in the Royal Castle visible in the background May 3rd Constitution was the first written national constitution in Europe and the world's second after the United States Constitution The May 3rd Constitution was adopted by the Sejm of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth on May 3 1791 Konstytucja_3_Maja jpg 2011-08-21 07 34 UTC Konstytucja_3_Maja jpg Jan Matejko derivative work Materialscientist <span class signature-talk >talk</span> File Konstytucja 3 Maja jpg PD-old-100 Original upload log This image is a derivative work of the following images File Konstytucja_3_Maja jpg licensed with PD-Art PD-old-100 2009-12-26T12 01 32Z Mathiasrex 7459x4135 7284812 Bytes <nowiki>new version</nowiki> 2009-04-29T23 08 09Z Ludmiła Pilecka 7459x4135 14749675 Bytes <nowiki>higher resolution</nowiki> 2008-03-02T19 15 01Z Mathiasrex 1647x915 459007 Bytes <nowiki> </nowiki> 2008-02-23T11 18 30Z Goku122 1661x932 304542 Bytes <nowiki></nowiki> 2005-02-28T12 20 33Z Nk 800x437 109625 Bytes <nowiki>Painting by Jan Matejko from 1891 PD-old </nowiki> Uploaded with derivativeFX Constitution of May 3 1791 by Jan Matejko Stanisław Małachowski Details of paintings by Jan Matejko Constitution of May 3 1791 |