or influenced by wealthy magnates. Jacek Jędruch described it as the "harbinger of the reform movement of the eighteenth century in the [Polish] political sphere", and others have expressed similar views. The treatise has been praised by few contemporaries (such as voivode of Sandomierz, Stanisław Morsztyn, bishop of Kraków Kazimierz Łubieński, and Stanisław Konarski) and later in the 19th century by the Stańczycy faction. Dunin-Karwicki was not very popular in the Great Sejm period, as for the reformers, his criticism of the liberum veto would not go far enough, and his arguments for weakening the royal power would not be shared by many who desired to strengthen it. He proposed numerous fixes to the Sejm. In a larger picture, he argued for the need of taxation of nobility in order to provide for a permanent army, limiting the king's power to distribute offices, limiting the liberum veto, and increasing the frequency of the Sejms. He noted that the governance should stem from the nation (nobility), and he has been criticized for not seeing the need to enfranchise other classes, such as the townspeople or the peasants. He was a colleague of Stefan Bidziński. His date of death is uncertain. In October 1724 a new podkomorzy of Sandomierz was appointed, which may indicate his death; but Konopczyński in his later works notes that this is not certain, and some documents note his death in 1725. Thus Konopczyński believes it is possible that Dunin-Karwicki have simply resigned his office in 1724, and died only in 1725. References 1640 births 1725 deaths 17th-century Polish nobility 18th-century Polish nobility Polish Calvinist and Reformed Christians 17th-century Polish politicians 18th-century Polish–Lithuanian politicians