Koncepcje samorządu terytorialnego w polskich konstytucjach dwudziestolecia międzywojennego (1918–1939
Concepts of local government in the Polish constitutions of the interwar period (1918–1939)

Summary/Abstract: The article outlines concepts of local government based on the provisions of the Constitution of the Republic of Poland of 17 March 1921 (the March Constitution) and the Constitutional Act of 23 April 1935 (the April Constitution). In the first place, the assumptions of the March Constitution concerning the political system in relation to local government are presented, and then its influence on the formation of this local government in the Second Polish Republic is shown. The author outlines challenges and difficulties accompanying the attempts to adopt statutes on local government in line with the spirit of the March Constitution and outlines the legal basis for the organisation and activity of local government in Poland during the interwar period (1918–1939). Attention is also drawn to the changes in the approach of those in power to the role of local government which followed the May Coup in 1926 and were introduced in the Act of 23 March 1933 on the Partial Change of the Local Government System. The author also presents the legal position of local government in the April Constitution and indicates the ideas that underlay the creation of constitutional concepts of local government and how they were externalised in the specific political conditions. The article also provides a comparative analysis of the concept of local government resulting from the Constitutions mentioned above.

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