О ПРАВНОМ СТАТУСУ И ОВЛАШЋЕЊИМА НАРОДНЕ СКУПШТИНЕ У РБИЈИ 1858-1888
ON THE LEGAL STATUS AND POWERS OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY IN SERBIA

Summary/Abstract: How to comply with the demands of democracy and thus contribute to its realisation, is a question which has repeated itself through history up to modern age. In the context of such an argument, the author wishes, through this paper, to return the reader to the time when Serbs, in a newly restored country, faced similar requests which the age of modernism had carried. Europeanisation of modern Serbia, followed by imperative respect for traditional values, meant accepting certain ideas significant in the context of modern state law organising. Along with the idea of constitutionality, the idea of modern representative democracy followed by its characteristic prodigies, was strongly rooted. Hence, the author wishes to explain the institutionalising process of representative democracy through promoting national representation, accentuating the period which highly contributed to formal democratization of the society and state. The author also underlines the fact that only few decades stand between the period of unrestrained despotic government and the period when, liberally coloured tendencies were formed into the first National Assembly Act (1858). A decade later, by Constitution of 1869, for the first time, National Assembly got its place in the system of central government, and after introducing democratic parliamentarism, Constitution of 1888, finally founded the state on its modern grounds, in compliance with modern European standards.

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