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What once was a minor dispute over a local Lwów official of the Crown has since exploded with the recent taxation reforms of the localized administration. It would seem that this has lead to the empowerment of local higher nobility over the lowers, and lead to great strife in the region. On the one hand, the Magnates see themselves as lawfully exercising their authority, while the lower class of the nobility has accused the Crown of ignoring the laws of Incombatibilitas by creating more deputies and other official titles that lay outside of these laws to circumvent the 'spirit of the law' - which is to limit the power of the Magnates over the lesser mobility.
As a direct result, the lesser nobles have gathered together at Lwów, demanding an execution of these laws and others. This execution of laws has lead them to be known as the Executionists. Headed by Jan Łaski, as well as various members of the noble house of Ostrorog. However, these two heads conflict with just how much power should be relegated to the Crown. As such, the Ostrorog camp has opted for an almost exclusively pro-Crown standpoing, drawing in much of the vast lower nobility (which own at most a farm or two) which have no power to help themselves and must then rely on the crown. Yet, much of the middle and low nobility that do own land tend to side with Łaski, which holds a system of checks and balances that keep both the King and the Magnates in check, and prevent either side on taking too much power from the other - or from the lower class themselves.
In a similar vein, the Magnates have formed their own confederation literally a few estates away from the Executionist confederation in Lwów. They state that their own laws are not being respected - a law that Sigismund himself accepted as a fact when he assumed the Union of Mielnik's laws on succession. They draw to the King's attention the Privilege of Mielnik. If the King thinks he can execute some laws but not others, then he must execute all laws and hand over power to the Magnates according to this privilege, and agree to the enforcement of all prior privileges of Poland!
Both sides (or, perhaps, all three sides) are drawing near to blows as the Confederations of Lwów rage on with intense debate. What is the word of the King in all this?
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