The article describes the issue of the public activity of professional soldiers in the light of the provisions of the Constitution of the Republic of Poland of 1997 and the Act of September 11, 2003 on the military service of professional soldiers. The author analyzes in detail the political freedoms and rights of citizens, defined in the Constitution of the Republic of Poland and the possibility of their implementation by professional soldiers in the light of the restrictions imposed on them in the Act on the military service of professional soldiers. The aim of the analyzes carried out is to indicate the scope of civil rights in the sphere of public activity that professional soldiers are entitled to, whose special service relationship imposes certain restrictions on the exercise of these rights.