Josip Hohnjec, the Principled Activist for the Revision of the Vidovdan Constitution at the National Assembly during the 1921–1925 Period

Abstract

Examined is the political activity of Josip Hohnjec, one of the most prominent politicians of the Slovene People’s Party in the period of the formation of the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes and during the first years of its existence. A Catholic priest and a declared Republican, Hohnjec was particularly renowned for his learned and well-prepared speeches at the National Assembly in Belgrade, generally on Yugoslav foreign politics and endeavors to preserve, or establish, territorial integrity of the Slovene territory. Until the Croatian Peasant Party changed its political orientation in 1925 he was also a principled proponent of a revision of the Vidovdan Constitution, particularly in regard to its provisions stipulating state centralism and national unitarism.