United States of Poland
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United States of Poland (Polish: Stany Zjednoczone Polski) was an unrealized political concept of reborn Poland, created by Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1860–1941). It was first presented in the Paderewski Memorandum, given to US President Woodrow Wilson on 11 January 1917.
Paderewski's idea postulated rebuilding a Polish state as a federation, where equality of all citizens, regardless of religion and ethnicity, would be enshrined in law and the states constitution. The proposed state would include most of the former lands of the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth. Taking into account the population of the regions within the proposed nation's borders, the country would have 54 million citizens. At its head would be a President with a title of the King of Poland, Lithuania, Polesia and Halych.[1]