NAMES OF THE POLISH STATE AND IT’S POLITICAL FEATURES OF GOVERNMENT IN XX CENTURY ACCORDING TO CONSTITUTIONAL ACTS: HISTORICAL AND LEGAL ANALYSIS
Author drew attention to the term «Rzeczpospolita» used in the constitutions neighboring Polish state. In the Belarusian and Russian historiography, it is most often translated as «republic». Historical and legal analysis of primary sources shows that the concept of «Rzeczpospolita» is much broader in scope than just a form of government, and therefore a reflection of her using the term «republic» is not correct, if does not disclose the polysemous definition. Before us is the legal structure of political organization of the Polish people at different stages of development of the state, a kind of polity, which has the character of expansion.