After an agreement that the new government would be a constitutional monarchy similar to that of England, Stanislaw wrote the first draft of the constitution, which had contributions and edits from Kollontay, Malachowski, Potocki, Niemcewicz, and others. The impact of Kosciuszko’s stories about America’s Founding Fathers influenced his friends, and the notion of “no taxation without representation” began to reverberate among the reformers who represented the burghers, peasants, and Jews.
