were highly susceptible to inner divisions and outside influence. Regardless of the dangers involved, the Transylvanian and Polish-Lithuanian estates insisted on their right to 'free elections', which
they perceived as one of their fundamental liberties. In both countries, the elective system was reformed and radicalized in the 1570s. This book examines these institutional and constitutional transformations through the prism of three elections that took place in this period.
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