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Which quality of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth did he try to change?
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The answer is decentralization. The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was a decentralised state, with power shared between the king, the nobility, and the regional assemblies. Sigismund II Augustus attempted to centralise power by increasing the authority of the king and reducing the power of the nobility. This was unpopular with the nobility, and led to a number of conflicts between Sigismund II Augustus and the Sejm, the Polish parliament.
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