POLITICAL RIGHTS IN THE KINGDOM OF SERBS, CROATS AND SLOVENES: BASIC FEATURES DEVELOPMENT

Sa？etak The authors analyse the development of basic features of political rights in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes in the period from its formation in 1918 until the proclamation of the 6th January Dictatorship in 1929. The authors identify four basic features regarding development of political rights in the first years of the Kingdom and these are a strong con- nection of ethnicity and enjoyment of political rights, inequality of suffrage, authoritarianism in defining and implementation of political rights, and legal particularism. In addition to dis- cussing the basic features in pre-constitutional period, the authors analyse the relation be- tween the Constitution of 1921 and basic features of political rights. They provide arguments supporting the thesis that, despite rules contained in the Constitution, the basic features of development of political rights present in the first formative years could be detected, to a con- siderable degree, later in the period from 1921 until 1929, as well