 Constitution of Pylyp Orlyk

The Constitution of Pylyp Orlyk ( ("Konstytutsiya Pylypa Orlyka") or Pacts and Constitutions of Rights and Freedoms of the Zaporizhian Host ("Pakty i Konstytutsii Prav i Volnostei Viyska Zaporozkoho"), ) was a 1710 constitutional document written by Hetman Pylyp Orlyk, a Cossack of Ukraine.It established a democratic standard for the separation of powers in government between the legislative, executive, and judiciary branches, well before the publication of Montesquieu's "Spirit of the Laws".