He played a certain part during the struggle between King Augustus II the Strong and Stanisław Leszczyński. He was the author of a work entitled De ordinanda Republica seu de corrigendis defectibus in statu Reipublicae Poloniae and only published in 1871, which was appreciated by the Conservative circle of the ‘Stańczycy’. Besides being a harbinger of the reformist literature of the 18th century, it comprised demands for the introduction of a permanent tax for the army on manorial estates; for the assigning, to the same purpose, of the income from the Crown lands; for taking the distribution of offices away from the king; for the limiting of the ‘liberum veto’ (the possibility of breaking up Sejm proceedings); for the creation of the annual ‘legislative Sejm’ endowed with the right of prolonging the proceedings at its own discretion, and for carrying out of royal elections in individual voivodeships, with their majority determining the final choice. Some of Dunin-Karwicki’s postulates were reflected in the decisions of the Sejm of 1717 (the ‘Silent Sejm’).
