Abstract
The National Party issued generally positive opinions on the national
past, invariably stressing the need to establish bonds with the fatherland’s
history and the traditions of the Polish nation. Polish culture was a domain
within which permanent and imperishable values were observed. The heritage
of the past was meant to serve as an impulse to construct the nationstate.
The principal objective of this article is to present selected elements
of the National Party’s views on the state’s political system in the context
of political science. Other objectives include outlining the ideological, conceptual
and programme-related image of the National Party, along with
the factors determining its ideas, concepts, and views, regarding the state’s
political system. Analysis of the previous studies on this subject-matter has
revealed that the scientific reflection on Polish nationalism is still incomplete,
and calls for extensive verification. The subject matter dealt with in
this article has filled in a major research gap. Induction was the underlying
research method employed by the author. Among the research techniques
used in the study, the analysis of various pieces of evidence and traces of
political thought became the most prevalent. Other research methods which
proved useful in implementing the research objectives included the systematisation
of political concepts and a description based on a status-quo
analysis.