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===İkinci Cumhuriyet===
[[Birinci Dünya Savaşı]] ve Polonya Bağımsızlığı'nın yeniden kurulmasından sonra, parlamentonun toplantısı, 1918'in demokratik seçim kanununun altında, yeni devletin dayanıklı sembolü oldu. Maciej Rataj bu durumu ifade ile vurguladı: "Burası Polonya ve bu bir ''Sejm''".
After the [[First World War]] and re-establishment of Polish independence, the convocation of parliament, under the democratic electoral law of 1918, became an enduring symbol of the new state's wish to demonstrate and establish continuity with the 300 year Polish parliamentary traditions established before the time of the partitions. Maciej Rataj emphatically paid tribute to this with the phrase: "There is Poland there, and so is the ''Sejm''".
[[File:Beck przemówienie.jpg|right|thumb|upright|[[Józef Beck]], MinisterDışişleri ofBakanı Foreign''Sejm'' Affairs,'deki deliversünlü hisOnur famousKonuşması'nı Honour Speech in the ''Sejm''okudu, 5th5 MayMayıs 1939.]]
During the [[interwarİki savaş arası perioddönem]] ofboyunca PolandPolonya'snın independencebağımsızlığı, the1919'daki first [[Polish legislative election, 1919|Legislativeilk ''Sejm'' of 1919]]seçimi, aKurucu Constituent AssemblyMeclis, passed1919 theKüçük [[Small Constitution of 1919]]Anayasası, which introduced aPolonya'ya [[parliamentaryparlamenter republiccumhuriyet]]i andtanıttı proclaimed the principle of theve ''Sejm''’s’in [[sovereignty]]egemenliğini bildirdi. ThisBu wasdaha thensonra strengthenedgüçlendirildi, in 1921'de, byPolonya'nın theMart [[MarchAnayasası Constitution of Poland|March Constitution]]tarafından, oneen ofdemokratik theAvrupa mostanayasalarından democraticbirisi European1. constitutionsDünya enacted after the end ofSavaşı'ndan Worldsonra Waryürürlüğe Igirdi. The constitution established a political system which was based on [[Montesquieu]]'s doctrine of separation of powers, and which restored the bicameral ''Sejm'' consisting of a lower house (to which alone the name of "''Sejm''" was from then on applied) and an upper house, the Senate. In 1919, [[Roza Pomerantz-Meltzer]], a member of the [[Zionism|Zionist]] party, became the first woman ever elected to the ''Sejm''.<ref>{{cite book |title=God's Playground: A History of Poland |last=Davies |first=Norman |year=1982 |publisher=Columbia University Press |location= |isbn= |page=302}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Hostages of Modernization: Studies on Modern Antisemitism, 1870-1933/39 |last=Strauss |first=Herbert Arthur |authorlink= |coauthors= |year=1993 |publisher=Walter de Gruyter |location= |isbn= |page=985}}</ref>
The legal content of the March Constitution allowed for ''Sejm'' supremacy in the system of state institutions at the expense of the executive powers, thus creating a parliamentary republic out of the Polish state. An attempt to strengthen executive powers in 1926 (through the August Amendment) proved too limited and largely failed in helping avoid legislative grid-lock which had ensued as a result of too-great parliamentary power in a state which had numerous diametrically-opposed political parties sitting in its legislature. In 1935, the parliamentary republic was weakened further when, by way of, [[Józef Piłsudski]]'s [[May Coup (Poland)|May Coup]], the president was forced to sign the [[Polish Constitution of 1935|April Constitution of 1935]], an act through which the head of state assumed the dominant position in legislating for the state and the Senate increased its power at the expense of the ''Sejm''.
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