Following Poland regaining independence in 1918, the cabinet of Jędrzej Moraczewski who served as the first Prime Minister of the Second Polish Republic between November 1918 and January 1919 removed preventive censorship, abolishing a number of laws inherited from the partition period, and replacing them with ones more supportive of the freedom of press. New press laws were issued on 7 February 1919, introducing press regulation system and giving the government control over printing houses. In 1920 during the Polish-Soviet war, information about the war was required government's approval. The March Constitution of 1921 confirmed the freedom of speech, and explicitly abolished any preventive censorship and concession system.