The Liberalization of Slovene Society in the Late 1960s.

After World War II Yugoslavia formally reinstated a mUltiparty political system which was legalized by the Law on Associations, Committees and Public Assembly prior to the first elections of 25 August 1945. 1 Article 27 of the Yugoslav federal constitution of January 1946 included the right of assembly. This regulation remained in effect until the constitution of 1963, which defined the leading role of the Communist Party ofYugoslavia. 1 In 1965, further legislative changes indirectly led to a one-party system.] The leading role of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia was made even more explicit in the 1974 constitution.