Government Act Dear Peter In your Note on Polish constitution definition you overexerted yourself in seeking to justify why the May 3rd Constitution was adopted as a Government Act rather than as a Constitution The body of the Government Act itself i e the text of the Constitution refers to itself repeatedly as this Constitution as inspection of either the Polish original or its English translation on Wikisource will show The reason that the document went through the Sejm as the Government Act was simply that the Polish May 3rd Constitution contrary to the way the U S Constitution came into force was voted in as an ordinary act instituting a framework of government