Ivan Žolger in zadnji poskus revizije ustave v Habsburški monarhiji: povezave s snovanjem ustavnih podlag za novo politično skupnost?
Ivan Žolger and the Last Revision Attempt of the Constitution of the Habsburg Monarchy: Possible Ties to Concieving the Constitutional Foundations for the New Polity?

Summary/Abstract: In her paper, the author focuses on two questions: first, on whether the task of preparing the last revision attempt of the constitution of the Austrian part of the Habsburg monarchy was in autumn of 1917 indeed entrusted as a special secret task (also) to Ivan Žolger by the emperor, and second, on whether he really was able to act on it in the months that followed. By revealing the newly discovered archival documents, their description and integration in the historical context, the author in her conclusion answers affirmatively to both questions. In addition, she formulates a thesis that the discovered documents show that the testimony of Rudolf Andrejka, the head of the Žolger’s cabinet when he was minister in the last technical government of Ernst Seidler, are to be trusted. It is highly probable that the high Slovene officials from Žolger’s circle really started with preparing the necessary factual as well as theoretical foundations for the conception of the provisional constitution and administration for Slovenia, that served as foundation half a year later for the so called “Žolger’s constitution” for the Slovene part of the State of SHS, already before the demission by Ivan Žolger on May 6 1918.

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