{"content":[{"text":"‘‘Social Transformations in Contemporary Society’’, 2013 (1) \n ISSN 2345-0126 (online)","bbox":{"left":0.366039,"top":0.059902,"width":0.541371,"height":0.04396599999999999}},{"text":"THE DEBATE OVER PROPOSED NEW MARRIAGE LAW AS AN \n EXAMPLE OF THE SOCIAL CHANGES IN THE INTERWAR POLAND","bbox":{"left":0.113017,"top":0.18805,"width":0.773564,"height":0.04250100000000001}},{"text":"Szymon Paciorkowski","bbox":{"left":0.404365,"top":0.266942,"width":0.197882,"height":0.018212000000000006}},{"text":"Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland","bbox":{"left":0.295032,"top":0.303376,"width":0.42166,"height":0.018212000000000006}},{"text":"Abstract","bbox":{"left":0.138992,"top":0.357989,"width":0.07775300000000002,"height":0.018212000000000006}},{"text":"Purpose - the article aims to present the arguments used in the debate over the proposed new \n matrimonial law in the interwar Poland. The new codification was prepared in order to replace the \n previously existing regulations, that were completely different in the various parts of the country. \n Due to the opposition to the new legislation it never came into force. It should be noted that this \n opposition had a mass character, that was induced by the attitude of the conservative circles and \n the dominant religious groups. The author aims to show the various types of the arguments used in \n the debate (related i. e. to the position of the family, the development of the nation) and to indicate \n the usefulness of the analysis of the discussion on the law of marriage to reflect on contemporary \n discussions over controversial legal projects. \n Design / methodology / approach - research for the article was based on the analysis of the \n selected papers issued in the interwar period that referred to the proposed new marriage law. \n Findings – the goal of the research is to show that both proponents and opponents of the \n new matrimonial law used an extremely wide range of arguments. These arguments were not only \n of a religious nature. Legal and sociological arguments were also used during the debate. \n Research limitations/implications – the article focuses only on the selected sources from the \n analyzed period, so it is only an introduction to the further research, that can also involve studies \n on the marriage law in the interwar Europe. \n Practical implications - article may serve as a contribution to the discussion on the changing \n views regarding the nature of the marriage, its secular and religious implications as well as the \n role of the family in the state policy in the 20th century Europe. \n Originality/value – the problem of the codification of the marriage law in the Second Polish \n Republic has been already widely discussed by the researches (Godlewski 1967; Krasowski 1994; \n Górnicki, 2000), so the aim of the article is to concentrate mostly on the diversity of the \n arguments raised during the debate over the proposed new marriage law. \n Keywords: marriage law, Second Polish Republic \n Type of research - literature review","bbox":{"left":0.092629,"top":0.394404,"width":0.8150510000000001,"height":0.434076}},{"text":"Introduction","bbox":{"left":0.138992,"top":0.846753,"width":0.11366100000000001,"height":0.018212000000000006}},{"text":"The unification of the various legal systems that had been left behind by the former \n Prussian, Russian and Austrian authorities was a major issue for the Polish government \n 185","bbox":{"left":0.092629,"top":0.883187,"width":0.8148400000000001,"height":0.05547400000000002}}],"images_bbox":[{"left":0.042884,"top":0.034528,"width":0.139352,"height":0.082374}],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[{"left":0.042884,"top":0.034528,"width":0.139352,"height":0.082374}]}