MODEL PODELE VLASTI U PRVOM USTAVU PRVE JUGOSLOVENSKE DRŽAVE – VIDOVDANSKOM USTAVU

Abstract

In this paper, the co-authors first analyzed the meaning and scope of the provisions of Vidovdan Constitution, as well as the circumstances that preceded its adoption. They include, among other things, the formation of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes that took place on December 1st, 1918 in Belgrade, then, the constitutional provisional arrangement, as well as various debates held at the Constitutional Convention. Also, it should be mentioned that the final adoption of this Constitution was preceded by several constitutional drafts, so, the co-authors of this paper hope that their legal analysis will attract the attention of contemporary and future constitutionalists and legal historians. In the text that follows, the co-authors will attempt to shed the light on both social and political aspects of the conflicts of that time and clashes in the Assembly. The central part of the paper is dedicated to the issue of the organization of government (administration) in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes based on Vidovdan Constitution. Namely, from the date of merging into a common state, until the date of the adoption of this Constitution, there was rather a long lapse of time, more than two and a half years. This created a lot of problems and the principle issue was the struggle to consolidate a newly formed state. Such constitutional provisional arrangement left a number of adverse consequences since the decisions passed by the Government established just temporary, provisional constitutional arrangements. Of course, at the given moment they were of great significance, but they generated the constitutional and legal framework of the newly formed state.