Драгољуб Јовановић о уставном питању : Поводом Нацрта устава ФНРЈ

Abstract

Dragoljub Jovanović about constitution. On the Draft Constitution of FPRY

Professor Dragoljub Jovanović – an honorable man, honest patriot, antifascist, antinacist, objective observer of events, cautious and sober analyst, consistent and brave. He was an oppossiton both in the old and the new Yugoslavia. In understanding and thinking about social problems he was distinguished by – not only in writing but also in speech – unification of different approaches inherent to his polyvalent education: philosophical, legal, historical, political, sociological, and anthropological. He saw and brought out – firstly, before the members of Constitutional committee, and later before the public – the weaknesses of the Draft of future Constitutution. Because of these and such lucid considerations, because of his own vision of the past, the reality and the future, because of asking crucial legal and political questions in a timely manner as well as original and shrewd response to most of them – Dragoljub Jovanović is still up-to-date and in many ways applicable thinker. A man who, with all his heart and his brilliant mind, tried not to repeat on the social and political plane mistakes of the past, from the time of monarchy, i.e. the old Yugoslavia – and both to get out of its experiences that good for the new, different and more fruitful future of the homeland. Professor Jovanović tried – in favour of the new state – to demonstrate and to analyze different, better and more lasting principles: state unity as well as social unity based on healthy foundations, multylateral system, federal arrangement, equality of nations, balanced development of different social layers, debirokratization, freedom and economic growth, opposing to everyone and every monopoly.