An Official in the Polish Political and Legal Thought of the Second Half of the 18th Century on the Example of the Theses of Józef Hieronim Pawlikowski and Józef Puszet de Puget
An Official in the Polish Political and Legal Thought of the Second Half of the 18th Century on the Example of the Theses of Józef Hieronim Pawlikowski and Józef Puszet de Puget

Summary/Abstract: In Poland, the second half of the 18th century was a period determining the future fate of the Polish state. A very rich political and legal debate was characterized by topics concerning healing the state, systemic changes or issues that required immediate reform, such as granting peasants personal freedom, increasing the rights of burghers or granting rights to Jews. Although in the Western Europe the movement of cameralists was successfully developing, issues related to the functioning of administration, the position of offices or officials, due to the situation in the country, were not so strongly exposed. However, more and more often there emerged works discussing specific legal solutions and selected offices. This paper presents the views of two political writers of the second half of the 18th century, Józef Herman Pawlikowski and Józef Puszet de Puget, who, in their works, created a theoretical scheme of an official, their position and relations between offices.

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