Vidovdan Constitution

The Constitution is named after the feast of St. Vitus (Vidovdan), a Serbian Orthodox holiday.

[2] The Constitution was in effect until King Alexander proclaimed his 6 January Dictatorship on that date in 1929.

The process of adopting the Vidovdan Constitution revealed major political conflicts in the new state.

For women, the Constitution provided for the passage of legislation that would address the issue of their suffrage, but it was not enacted throughout the life of the kingdom.

The Council of Ministers had the right to legislate, to issue regulations for the implementation of the law and those with legal force in special cases.

[3] The Croatian Union had proposed a confederation of the kingdom into six entities:[4] On 30 June, an editorial in the People's Radical Party's journal Samouprava stated, "This year's Vidovdan restored an empire to us".

[5] On 21 July, the Minister of the Interior and member of the People's Radical Party Milorad Drašković was assassinated in Delnice by a group of communists.