. The Serbian people, their past glory and their destiny. tion of that humili-ating national spectacle. King Milan named a par-liamentary commission for the elaboration of a newconstitution, which was adopted and ratified by theNational Assembly in December, 1888. The newconstitution established the ministerial responsibil-ity of the Cabinet to the National Assembly. KingMilan had found that the breach between him-self and the Radicals was too wide to be mended,and on March 3, 1889, he abdicated the throne infavour of his young son Alexander, who was aminor, and for whom a regency composed of
. The Serbian people, their past glory and their destiny. tion of that humili-ating national spectacle. King Milan named a par-liamentary commission for the elaboration of a newconstitution, which was adopted and ratified by theNational Assembly in December, 1888. The newconstitution established the ministerial responsibil-ity of the Cabinet to the National Assembly. KingMilan had found that the breach between him-self and the Radicals was too wide to be mended,and on March 3, 1889, he abdicated the throne infavour of his young son Alexander, who was aminor, and for whom a regency composed of Ris-tich, Protich, and Belimarkovich was June 15 (O. S.), on the occasion of the fivehundredth anniversary of Kossovo, Alexander wasanointed Servian King at the ancient church ofZhitcha, before whose altar all of the old ServianKings had been crowned. The rule of the regency ushered in a period ofaggravated party disorder and political April 1, 1893, King Alexander, by a coup-detat,proclaimed himself of age and ended the Prince Michael Street, Belgrade FROM 1878 TO THE PRESENT DAY 713 He at once appointed a Cabinet composed of Radi-cals with whom, however, he was soon in hot con-tention. King Milan returned from Paris in Feb-ruary, 1894, to Servia, and Alexander, by a secondcoup-detat, suspended the constitution of 1888and replaced it by the old constitution of 1869,which allowed more scope for the exercise of therulers personal power, enabling him to rule withthe help of the Progressist party which representedan insignificant minority of the people in thecountry. In the last decade of the nineteenth century theServian Government began to give closer attentionto the furtherance of Servian interests in Macedoniaand Old Servia and the protection and general wel-fare of the Serb inhabitants of those lands. TheServian schools, which had been closed after theSerbo-Turkish war, 1876-78, were reopened, andfor the defence of those populations against t
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