Editing Consensus decision-making (section)

===Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth===
The [[Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth]] of 1569–1795 used consensus decision-making in the form of ''[[liberum veto]]'' ('free veto') in its [[Sejms]] (legislative assemblies). A type of [[unanimous consent]], the ''liberum veto'' originally allowed any member of a Sejm to veto an individual law by shouting ''Sisto activitatem!'' (Latin: "I stop the activity!") or ''Nie pozwalam!'' (Polish: "I do not allow!").<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Juliusz|first1=Bardach |title=Historia państwa i prawa polskiego |last2=Leśnodorski|first2=Bogusław|last3=Pietrzak|first3=Michał|date=1987|publisher=Państ. Wydaw. Naukowe |location=Warszawa|pages=220–221}}</ref> Over time it developed into a much more extreme form, where any Sejm member could unilaterally and immediately force the end of the current session and nullify any previously passed legislation from that session.<ref name="Carsten1961">{{cite book|author=Francis Ludwig Carsten|title=The new Cambridge modern history: The ascendancy of France, 1648–88 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FzQ9AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA562|access-date=11 June 2011|orig-year=1961 |year=1975 |publisher=CUP Archive|isbn=978-0-521-04544-5 |pages=561–562}}</ref> Due to excessive use and sabotage from neighboring powers bribing Sejm members, legislating became very difficult and weakened the Commonwealth. Soon after the Commonwealth banned ''liberum veto'' as part of its [[Constitution of 3 May 1791]], it dissolved under pressure from neighboring powers.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Ekiert|first=Grzegorz|date=1998|editor-last=Lipset|editor-first=Seymour Martin|title=Veto, Liberum |journal=The Encyclopedia of Democracy|volume=4|pages=1341}}</ref>