Slovenes mark the beginning of modern political history with the year of 1867 and the so-called December constitution when two political camps were firmly established. Our own statehood experiences happened at the brink of three great breaks: firstly the dissolution of Austro-Hungary in 1918 into the State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs, then with the World war in the years 1941/45 into the Socialist Republic of Slovenia (1974) and furthermore with the breaking of socialist regimes into The Republic of Slovenia in the year 1991. As a young nation, with a lack of its own layers of aristocracy and bourgeoise we do not carry a multi-centennial statehood history, but that does not immediately mean that in the past we did not possess autonomous lawmaking capacity and that we were a pure subject of government. Modern statehood experiences have expressed themselves as republican state forms. Today’s republic already points to a possible nations’ statehood canon, through which an idea of an indispensable constitutional core is emerging, a transcendent idea body of a Slovene Republic. For today it’s acceptable to provisionally note, especially for reference purposes of (statehood) history and autonomous core of the Slovene constitutional matter, that today’s republic is a third one. In a possible future, today's Republic of Slovenia (1991) will almost certainly be judged as a First republic by qualitative and formal metrics.
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