Ustavni i politički triptih Vojvodine

Abstract

This paper is an attempt to present a brief, relatively full and up-to date constitutional- legal and political option on Vojvodina. Vojvodina was really created and legally defined in the First Yugoslavia. It has existed through all three Yugoslavia, the state union of Serbia and Montenegro and strives to survive in the democratic and 'national surrounding' of the tight internal framework of (today) Serbia. In the period of hundred years Vojvodina suffered different regimes: from the octroyed constitutions and rigid monarchies to the full anomies and personal authorities. Yugoslav monarchism, later in the (middle) period social federalism and in the current phase restrictive Serbian unitarism influenced in the starting phase the several decade of continuity of existence of Vojvodina. This is why this paper has a title 'Triptych' and will try to demonstrate the most important characteristics of each of these three phases - picture of Vojvodina primarily through the political sociological approach. The structure of the paper is divided into chapters: Trianon, provinces, monarchist constitutions of Yugoslavia, Autonomy of Vojvodina in the constitutions of the peoples and Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Vojvodina in the Constitution of the Republic of Serbia from 1990 and 2006, Collateral constitutional documents from 1992. and 2002. Does Serbia need a Constitution? Does Vojvodina need a new Constitution?.