"On a general note, I've got to tell you that this sloppy language makes our constitution something akin to paltry bigos made from rotten ham, half-rotten fatback and half-cured sauerkraut; so that each paragraph and article may and should be read completely on its own, without linking it with any other article. Naturally, the rotten ham is for Mr. President, the half-rotten fatback is for the cabinet, and the members of parliament are left with the half-cured sauerkraut. As you can see, there's nothing their stomachs can do and what comes out is stench, so that all of Wiejska Street [where the Polish parliament is located] reeks. And the only way out of this chaos is to rewrite the constitution in a decent way. What's more, nobody has the right to interpret the constitution. Interpretation is forbidden – so the state is left with nothing but bigos."
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Józef Piłsudski, prime minister of Poland, interviewed by Bogusław Miedziński (1930)
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