The Swiss Confederation (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Swiss Confederation In this work the authors have endeavoured to give a succinct account of the rise and progress of the Swiss Confederation through the seven phases of its development, and of the legislative, executive, and judicial authorities which exercise the Federal sovereignty under the amended Constitution of 1874. The nature of the Referendum, or popular vote, whether Federal or cantonal, which is an institution peculiar to Switzerland, the right of Initiative granted to a single voter or body of voters to set on foot proposals for new legislation or for the alteration or abolition of existing laws, and the Communes, which are the basis of Swiss republican institutions, are treated in separate chapters. The Cantons and their Tribunals, the organization of the Army, the system of Education, Religion, Agriculture, Commerce, and some few other subjects, are also dealt with, and in Chapter XIX we have attempted a short comparison between the political institutions of the ancient Swiss Confederation and the more modern Republic of the United States of America. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.