FEDERALISTIČKE IDEJE U NACRTIMA VIDOVDANSKOG USTAVA

Abstract

Federalist ideas in the drafts of the constitution in 1921 were one of the features of the process of creating the Vidovdan Constitution. They also marked the later state and legal development of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, the crisis of parliamentarism, dictatorship and later events, until the formation of the Banovina of Croatia and the collapse of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. In the content of the theme of this paper it is worth mentioning the tendencies of the Croatian Republican Peasant Party and the ideas of Stjepan Radić, but also other draft constitutions (eg the draft constitution of Josip Smodlaka and similar draft constitutions). It is especially interesting to consider the idea of Stojan Protić. Although he was an exponent of the policy of the People's Radical Party, he advocated a draft constitution with elements of federalism. These ideas left a deep mark in the constitutional problems of the common state, although the hallmark of its existence, until its collapse, was the aspiration towards unitarism.