1. The Polish People's Republic, by consolidating and multiplying the achievements of the working people, shall strengthen and extend the rights and liberties of citizens.

2. Citizens of the Polish People's Republic shall have equal rights irrespective of sex, birth, education, trade or profession, nationality, race, religion, social origin and status.

3. It shall be the duty of the citizens of the Polish People's Republic to conscientiously perform their duties toward the Country and contribute to its development.

1. Citizens of the Polish People's Republic shall have the right to work: that is, the right to employment paid in accordance with the quantity and quality of the work done.

2. The right to work shall be ensured by: the socialist economic system, the planned growth of productive forces, economical use of all factors in production, a steady promotion of scientific and technological progress in the national economy, the system of education and raising of professional qualifications. Proper implementation of the right to work shall be ensured by the socialist labour legislation.

1. Citizens of the Polish People's Republic shall have the right to rest and leisure.

2. The right to rest and leisure shall be assured to workers by the statutory reduction of work time through the application of the eight-hour working day or shorter work time in cases specified by law, by statutory days free of work, and annual paid holidays.

3. The organization of workers' holiday schemes, the development of tourism, health resorts, sports facilities, community centres, clubs, recreation rooms, parks, and other leisure time facilities shall provide opportunities for sound recreation to an increasing number of working people in town and country.

1. Citizens of the Polish People's Republic shall have the right to health protection and to aid in the event of sickness or disability to work.

2. This right shall be put into effect on an increasing scale through -

(1) the development of social insurance to cover sickness, old age and disability to work, and of various forms of social assistance;

(2) the development of State-organized protection of health and the raising of-health standards of the population, free medical service for all working people and their families, a steady improvement of safety conditions, protection and hygiene of work, extensive prevention and treatment of diseases, and care for the disabled;

(3) the development of hospitals, sanatoria, out-patient clinics, medical aid centres, and sanitation facilities.

Citizens of the Polish People's Republic shall have the right to benefit from the natural environment and it shall be their duty to protect it.

1. Citizens of the Polish People's Republic shall have the right to education.

2. The right to education shall be ensured on an ever increasing scale by -

(1) free education,

(2) universal and compulsory elementary education,

(3) spreading of secondary education,

(4) the development of higher education,

(5) the aid of the State in raising the skills of citizens employed in industrial establishments and other places of employment in town and country,

(6) the scheme of State scholarships, the development of hostels, boarding schools and students' hostels, as well as other forms of material aid for the children of workers, working peasants and intelligentsia.

1. Citizens of the Polish People's Republic shall have the right to benefit from cultural achievements and to creatively participate in the development of national culture.

2. This right shall be ensured, on an increasing scale, by developing and making available to the working people of town and country libraries, books, press, radio, cinemas, theatres, museums and exhibitions, community centres, clubs, and recreation rooms; by the extensive promotion of the cultural creative activity of the people and by the stimulation of creative talents.

The Polish People's Republic shall foster the all-round development of science based on the achievements of the most advanced thought of mankind and of progressive Polish thought, that is, science in the service of the Nation.

The Polish People's Republic shall promote the development of literature and arts which express the needs and aspirations of the people, and which are in keeping with the best progressive traditions of Polish literary and artistic output.

The Polish People's Republic shall extend comprehensive protection to the veterans of struggles for national and social liberation.

The Polish People's Republic shall extend special protection to the creative intelligentsia - to those working in the field of science, education, literature and an, as well as to pioneers of technological progress, rationalizers and inventors.

1. Women in the Polish People's Republic shall have equal rights with men in all the fields of public, political, economic, social, and cultural life.

2. The equality of rights of women shall be guaranteed by -

(1) equal rights with men to work and pay according to the principle "equal pay for equal work", the right to rest and leisure, to social insurance, to education, to honours and decorations, to hold public offices;

(2) mother-and-child care, protection of expectant mothers, paid leave before and after confinement, the development of a network of maternity clinics, creches and nursery schools, the extension of a network of service establishments, restaurants and canteens.

3. The Polish People's Republic shall consolidate the position of women in society, especially of gainfully-employed mothers and women.

1. Marriage, motherhood and family shall be safeguarded and protected by the Polish People's Republic. The State shall extend special protection to families with several children.

2. It shall be the parents' duty to bring up their children to become law-abiding citizens of the Polish People's Republic, aware of then-duties.

3. The Polish People's Republic shall ensure the implementation of the rights and obligations of maintenance.

4. Children born out of wedlock shall have equal rights with those born in wedlock.

5. Regardful of the interests of the family, the Polish People's Republic shall strive to improve housing conditions, and in co-operation with citizens it shall develop and promote various forms of house building, especially those conducted by co-operative societies; importance shall be attached to proper management of the housing resources.

The Polish People's Republic shall pay special attention to the education of youth and shall afford it great opportunities of development and provide conditions for active participation of the young generation in public, political, economic, and cultural life, teaching the youth to be co-responsible for the progress of the Country.

1. Citizens of the Polish People's Republic, irrespective of nationality, race or religion, shall enjoy equal rights in all fields of public, political, economic, social, and cultural life. Infringement of this principle by any direct or indirect preferences or restrictions of rights on account of nationality, race or religion shall be punishable.

2. The spreading of hatred or contempt, the provocation of disputes, or humiliation of man on account of national, racial or religious differences, shall be prohibited.

1. The Polish People's Republic shall guarantee freedom of conscience and religion to its citizens. The Church and other religious societies and organizations shall freely exercise their religious functions. Citizens shall not be prevented from taking part in religious activities and rites. No one may be compelled to participate in religious activities or rites.

2. The Church shall be separated from the State. The principles of the relationship between Church and State, and the legal and patrimonial position of religious societies shall be defined by law.

1. The Polish People's Republic shall guarantee its citizens freedom of speech, of the press, of meetings and assemblies, of processions and demonstrations.

2. To put these freedoms into effect, the working people and their organizations shall be given the use of printing shops, stocks of paper, public buildings and halls, means of communication, the radio, and other necessary material means.

1. In order to promote the political, social, economic, and cultural activities of the working people of town and country, the Polish People's Republic shall guarantee to its citizens the right of association.

2. Political organizations, trade unions, associations of working peasants, co-operative associations, youth, women's, sports and defence organizations, cultural, technical and scientific societies, as well as other social organizations of the working people, shall unite citizens for their active participation in political, social, economic, and cultural life.

3. It shall be prohibited to set up and to participate in associations whose objective or activities menace the socio-political system or the legal order of the Polish People's Republic.

Trade Unions shall play an important pan in the Polish People's Republic as a mass organization which takes pan in the formulation and implementation of tasks aimed at the socio-economic advancement of the country; the Trade Unions shall represent the interests and rights of the working people, and shall be the school of civic activeness and involvement in the building of socialist society.

1. Citizens of the Polish People's Republic shall participate in exercising social control, in consultations and discussions on key issues concerning the development of the country, and shall submit their suggestions.

2. Citizens shall have the right to approach all organs of the State with appeals, complaints and grievances.

3. Appeals, complaints and grievances of citizens shall be examined and settled without delay and justly. Those guilty of protraction or an indifferent and bureaucratic attitude, shall be called to account.

1. The Polish People's Republic shall guarantee to its citizens the inviolability of the person. A citizen may be deprived of his freedom only in cases specified by the law. A detained person shall be set free unless a warrant of arrest issued by the Court or by Public Prosecutor has been served on him within forty-eight hours from the moment of his detention.

2. The inviolability of the home and the privacy of correspondence shall be protected by law. The home may by searched only in cases specified by law.

3. Property may be confiscated only in cases specified by law, by virtue of a final judgement.

The Polish People's Republic shall grant asylum to nationals of other countries persecuted in connection with defending the interests of the working people, the struggle for social progress, activities in defence of peace, the struggle for national liberation, or as a result of scientific activities.

Polish citizens staying abroad shall enjoy the protection of the Polish People's Republic.

It shall be the duty of every citizen of the Polish People's Republic to abide by the provisions of the Constitution and laws, to maintain socialist work discipline, to respect the principles of community life, and to do his duty toward the State conscientiously.

It shall be the duty of every citizen of the Polish People's Republic to safeguard social property and to strengthen it as the firm foundations of the State's development and a source of the wealth and power of the Country.

1. It shall be the sacred duty of every citizen to defend the Country.

2. Military service shall be an honourable patriotic duty of citizens of the Polish People's Republic.

1. It shall be the duty of every citizen of the Polish People's Republic to exercise vigilance against enemies of the Nation and to guard State secrets carefully.'

2. High treason: espionage, subverting the Armed Forces, desertion to the enemy - shall be punished as the gravest of crimes, with all severity of law.