Constitution of Pylyp Orlyk

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The Constitution of Pylyp Orlyk (Ukrainian: Конституція Пилипа Орлика, romanized: Konstytutsiia Pylypa Orlyka) or the Bender Constitution,^[a] formally titled as The Treaties and Resolutions of the Rights and Freedoms of the Zaporozhian Host (Latin: Pacta et Constitutiones legum libertatumque Exercitus Zaporoviensis, Ukrainian: Договори і Постановлення Прав і вольностей Війська Запорозького, romanized: Dohovory i Postanovlennia Prav i volʹnostei Viisʹka Zaporozʹkoho), is a constitutional document written by the Hetman of the Zaporizhian Host, Pylyp Orlyk,^[2] the Cossack elders and the Cossacks of the Zaporozhian Army on the 5 April 1710 in the city of Bender (Tighina) in the Principality of Moldavia. It is sometimes called the first constitution of Ukraine.^[3][4]

It established the principle of the separation of powers in government between the legislative, executive, and judiciary branches well before the publication of Montesquieu's Spirit of the Laws.^{[citation needed]} The document limited the executive authority of the hetman, and established a Cossack parliament called the General Council [uk] (General Rada).

The Old Ukrainian-language original, signed by Orlyk, accompanied by a diploma signed by King Charles XII of Sweden, was found in 2008 by Ukrainian researchers in the Russian State Archive of Ancient Acts [ru], Moscow.^[5] The Latin-language original is kept in the National Archives of Sweden.

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