Constitutional aspects of the dissolution of the Czechoslovak Federation

Constitutional aspects of the dissolution of the Czechoslovak Federation Abstract The Czechoslovak Federation was a Czechoslovak state, which originated in 1918 based on the nation's right to self-determination. Through the natural and historical law, Slovakia was incorporated into the historical territory of the Lands of the Czech Crown, and Czechoslovakia was formed. A Czechoslovak nation had not previously existed. It was created out of people on the Czech territory and people on the Slovak territory as a fiction that helped to defend the state-forming idea. A Czechoslovak state was created as a national state, but was, in fact, a multinational state. Unsolved national and ethnic issues were one of the major causes of the end of the Czechoslovak state. The Czech and Slovak relations were re- evaluated with every social-wide change. Even prior to the formation of the state, Slovaks were assured of certain autonomy within Czechoslovakia. The failure to fulfill the assurances wound like a red thread through the entire history of the Czechoslovak state. Czechs, who began identifying with the Czechoslovak statehood practically immediately, were not too aware of their somewhat dismissive attitude toward Slovakian demands. It is likely that the concept of a unanimous Czechoslovak nation state led to its..