1974 Yugoslav Constitution

It added elaborate language protecting the self-management system from state interference and expanding representation of republics and provinces in all electoral and policy forums.

Accordingly, it prescribed a complex electoral procedure for that body, beginning with the local labor and political organizations.

The 1974 Constitution also expanded protection of individual rights and court procedures, with the all-purpose caveat that no citizen could use those freedoms to disrupt the prescribed social system.

Finally, Kosovo and Vojvodina, the two constituent provinces of Serbia, received substantially increased autonomy, including de facto veto power in the Serbian parliament.

Adoption of the Constitution was preceded by significant political events that occurred several years earlier, and that marked the beginning of the federalization of the country.

First, in the summer of 1966, Anti-federalization leader Aleksandar Ranković, one of the closest associates of Josip Broz Tito, was removed from all functions.

In 1968 and 1971 amendments were adopted to the Federal Constitution, through which Yugoslav Presidency as a collective leadership body was introduced (1971).

[7][8] Out of all constituencies, the SR Serbia had the most comments on the state organization under the 1974 Constitution, which was natural given its territorial structure.

At the eighth session of the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Serbia in September 1987, the ideas of Slobodan Milošević won, who energetically and strongly demanded the repeal of the Constitution of 1974.

In Croatia, after the victory of the HDZ (Franjo Tuđman), adopted amendments in 1990 which also removed the prefix "socialist" and changed the republic symbols as well.