Abstract
The Institute of Social Sciences of the CSPS of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Košice is an interdisciplinary workplace of social sciences and humanities with a primary research focus on the area of Central Europe in the field of social psychology, sociology and history.
Highlights
On 1 January 1969, the Constitutional Act on the Czechoslovak Federation[1] and the Constitutional Act on the Status of Nationalities in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic (CSSR)[2] came into force in Czechoslovakia
The aim of the paper is to analyze the activities of the Government Council of the SSR for Nationalities in the years 1969-1970 in the preparation of a bill on the status of nationalities in the Slovak Socialist Republic and the changes that occurred in the Council at the beginning of the normalization process
The Government Council of the SSR for Nationalities was one of the institutions formed in Slovakia after the establishment of the Czechoslovak Federation that addressed the issues of nationality
Summary
On 1 January 1969, the Constitutional Act on the Czechoslovak Federation[1] and the Constitutional Act on the Status of Nationalities in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic (CSSR)[2] came into force in Czechoslovakia. Instead of a very minimal legal regulation, i.e., only a reference in the 1960 Constitution, a constitutional law which addressed special national minorities was created and should have formed the basis for further legal regulation.[3] Adoption of further laws at the level of individual federal republics was expected. The first meeting of the Government Council of the Slovak Socialist Republic for Nationalities. One of the institutions that was created after the founding of the federation in Slovakia and focused on nationality issues was the Government Council of the SSR for Nationalities (hereinafter referred to as the Council).
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