The proclamation declared that "the Polish nation is an independent people and has a right to offer the Polish crown to him whom it may consider worthy, from whom it might with certainty expect faith to his oath and wholehearted respect to the sworn guarantees of civic freedom."
그리고 "폴란드 민족은 독립한 사람들로써 왕에 상응하는 인물이 폴란드 왕관을 씌고 권리를 갖고 그 인물은 스스로 맹세한 신조를 실수하지 않고 준수하고, 성의를 다해 시민의 자유를 보증하는 계약을 존중해야 한다"(the Polish nation is an independent people and has a right to offer the Polish crown to him whom it may consider worthy, from whom it might with certainty expect faith to his oath and wholehearted respect to the sworn guarantees of civic freedom)라는 선언이 나왔다.