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"Golden Liberty" distinguished Poland and was a unique exception in an age when Absolutism was developing in the principal countries of Europe to the east and west. Freedom and Liberty , even if enjoyed only by a single social class — the Szlachta — were assets almost unheard-of elsewhere in Europe, where monarchs held power of life and death over all their citizens. Yet the excesses of Golden Liberty resulted in weakness in the central government — a weakness that eventually allowed the Commonwealth's neighbors to paralyze the polity, bring it to the brink of Anarchy , and annex the powerless country in the late- 18th-century Partitions Of Poland . SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS
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