From the time of the Austro-Hungarian occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) until today, there have been occasional but continuous attacks on the territory, the population, and sovereignty of ...Bosnia and Herzegovina. No matter how the agreements of the Novi Pazar Convention, the Sangermen Peace Treaty, the Vidovdan Constitution, or the Zavnobih principles were violated and circumvented, the attack on the independent, sovereign, and complete BiH, a country of equal peoples and others, ie citizens, continued with equal intensity after the 1990s. XX century until today. The paper presents the continuity of fraud in terms of legal regulations, ie the legal order of Bosnia and Herzegovina. We are witnessing continuous unconstitutional and illegal activities in BiH, and whose political mentors and tutors almost always came from outside BiH, while the concrete action was carried out and is still carried out by certain Bosnian Serb and Croat political entities who often behave completely servilely concerning the national policies of neighboring countries: Croatia and Serbia, but also certain international factors due to the consequences of Islamophobia are often willing to ignore the rule of law and human rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina, what they jealously protect in their countries. The example of promoting the unconstitutional Day of the Republika Srpska entity and the overall state of legal unfoundedness and political hysteria created around it testifies to the claim that the political destiny of this country is still largely conditioned by local servility, and not by correct political-partnership relations with Serbia and Croatia. Given this, it is quite certain that the constitutional consistency and consociational model of democracy as well as the principle of the constituency of the people, although a big noose around the neck of this country on the path to a civil state and full realization of human rights, is extremely important legal and political support in Bosniak and all other patriotic forces in Bosnia and Herzegovina, which should be used properly in an insincere and ill-intentioned environment. The work in front of you contains two interrelated parts, the first part which refers to several historically important legal documents, from the end of the 19th century, which are mala fide the activity of different subjects, who initially proclaimed them and even stood behind them, played or derogated fraus legis, and the second part indicates the continuity of these actions, both domestically and internationally when it comes to the current time and recent history of political and legal relations in BiH.
Among the major consenquences of the World War I, besides huge destructions and human casualties, disappearance of old empires (Ottoman, Austro-Hungarian, Rusian and German) and emerge of new states ...in Europe under international influence can be mentioned. In December 1918 State of Croats, Serbs and Slovenians had united with Kingdom of Serbia and formed Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenians (later renamed in Kingdom of Yugoslavia in 1929). Bosnia and Herzegovina, as a part of this Kingdom, changed its political subjectivity in few phases which was a result of political processes and internal conflicts of Serbian, Croatian and other politicians. In this paper the focus is put on the Vidovdan Constitution, its promulgation with special review of Article Nr. 135 of this Constitution also known as Turkish Article. This Article managed to preserve teritorial integrity of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenians until 1924. when, according to the other provisions of the Constitution, the process of govermnent establishing had finished and the new centralised governing sistem came into power.
The kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, founded in 1918, enacted its first constitution (the Vidovdan - St. Vitus Day - constitution) on 28 June 1921. This constitution remained in force until 6 ...January 1929. Although various projects and drafts existed for the constitution, with very different concepts of what the parliament should look like, the one finally adopted was largely based on the Serbian constitution of 1903, with a more or less classical unicameral parliamentary model. However, in practice, the parliament was weak and frequently hindered by obstructions, and the king (Alexander Karađorđević) played the leading role. This article focuses on presenting the position of the parliament according to the Vidovdan constitution, but with a glance both backwards and forwards - to the alternatives that were proposed in other constitutional projects (and the Serbian constitution of 1903), and to how these constitutional regulations performed (or failed to perform) in practice.
Women in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes did not have the right to vote. Women's suffrage was not prescribed by Vidovdan Constitution. Regarding women's voting rights, the Constitution only ...contained a certain provision that stipulated that women's suffrage would be resolved by a special law. The paper deals with efforts put from feminist's organizations in the Yugoslav Kingdom in order to achieve suffrage for women. Speeches that were held in the Temporary National Assembly by MPs who advocated the idea of women's voting rights are presented in the paper. The paper also presents the discussions that were conducted in the Constitutional Assembly between deputies who were supporters and those who were opposed to the women's suffrage, as well as those held during the parliamentary debate on the electoral law. The author points out the activity of women's associations in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes which fought for women's suffrage and which advocated change of opinion that existed in the Yugoslav society of that time, that women should be spared from the inconvenience that political struggle implies, until they achieve the proper level of ability to engage in it. In addition, a brief overview of the evolution of the issue of women's voting rights is given in the paper. It is also emphasized that women in the territory of Voivodina had the right to elect and to be elected during the election of representatives for the Great National Assembly which was held in Novi Sad in November 1918. Overall, the women's issue was a matter of secondary significance in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, because there were many unresolved issues, such as national one, that occupied the attention both of the relevant state factors and the public.
The paper analyzes territorial organization of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, i.e. the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. After a brief review of the emergence of that country, which largely ...influenced its territorial organization, the systems of territorial organization in both of its constitutions the "Vidovdan" Constitution and the "September" Constitution - were analyzed. Finally, there is a short evaluation of the degree of self-government that these systems envisioned.
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