GENESIS OF THE INSTITUTE OF CONSTITUTIONAL JUSTICE IN THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA: 1963-1974
The Constitutional Court of the Socialist Republic of Serbia was established in 1963 as part of a unified system for the protection of constitutionality and legality in the SFRY. According to Article 1 of the Law on the Constitutional Court of Serbia, the Constitutional Court was an independent body of the Republic, ensuring the protection of constitutionality and legality on the basis of the Constitution within the framework of its constitutionally established rights and obligations. Analyzing the order of organization and activity of the Constitutional Court of Serbia under the Constitution of 1963, the author comes to the conclusion that an effective institution of judicial constitutional control had been created in the Socialist Republic of Serbia, which was in line with the goals and tasks of Serbia's constitutional system at that historical period.