Paradigm of political thought of the Polish Christian Democrats in the interwar period

The main assumptions of the political thought of Christian democracy were in accordance with the guidelines of the encyclicals. They were also based on the achievements of the European Christian-democratic trend. Among the most important assumptions and claims of Christian-democratic political thought are: (1) basing the organization of social life on the principles of Catholic ethics; (2) recognising the primacy of supernatural goals over temporal ones; (3) respect for the human personality and its rights; (4) ensuring a proper balance between power and civil liberty and the rights of the individual and society; (5) guaranteeing a parliamentary-democratic system; (6) respect for private property and labour; (7) social solidarity; (8) enfranchisement of workers; (9) anti-revolutionism and anti-socialism; (10) a corporate state system.