1. General Provisions
2. Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms
3. Economic and Social Relations
4. Organisation of the State
5. Self-Government
6. Public Finance
7. Constitutionality and Legality
8. The Constitutional Court
9. Procedure for Amending the Constitution
10. Transitional and Final Provisions

• On July 14, 1997 foreign citizens were granted permission to buy real estate
  Real estate
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   in Slovenia as part of the convergence towards the European Union
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  ; this decision was part of the so called Spanish compromise.
• On July 25, 2000 proportional voting system
  Voting system
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   was entered directly in constitution to avoid legal gap that threatened to happen after the National Assembly didn't approve the law about this issue according to somewhat unclear referendum
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   results: three voting systems were proposed to people but none of them won the absolute majority of voters. In a disputed decision, the Constitutional Court of Slovenia
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   ruled that if any law is to be passed, it is to be the law according to the option that got relative majority. In the political events that followed the time was running out and changing the constitution seemed like a good escape from status quo
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  ;
• On March 7, 2003 the constitution was changed again to allow Slovenia
  Slovenia
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   to enter the European Union
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   and NATO, if that would be the will of the people, which was shown to be the case in the referendum
  Referendum
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   on March 23, 2003.
• On June 23, 2004, three amendments to the Constitution were made. First one included disability as a personal circumstance which prohibits discrimination in the field of human rights and fundamental freedoms. Second one allowed to introduce candidacy quotas for state and local communities' elections in order to promote gender equality. The third one explicitly mentioned the right to a pension as an element of the right to social security.

External links

• Slovenian Constitution - English
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   translation
• Ustava Republike Slovenije - in Slovene