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Excerpt from Government in Switzerland Switzerland continues to be a perennial source of attraction. More than ever, travellers seek its mountains for scenery and recreation. The most inaccessible peaks of other days are now scaled by cable roads, and the remotest canons have become the sporting grounds of the nations. Almost equally attractive are the peculiar institutions of the country. To a romantic interest in the dramatic portions of its history, there has succeeded a deeper curiosity regarding the political experience of this mountain republic. Intelligent observers have been making known one or another phase of civic life, until a widespread interest in Switzerland has become distinctly discernible in newspapers and political discussion. To the American reader the subject is replete with comparisons. The federation of governments is like the union under which he lives. The rights of cantons are the rights for which the states have jealously contended; yet the problems of nation, state, and city have been so differently answered by the Swiss that the closer view is exceedingly instructive. 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.
Excerpt from Government and Politics of Switzerland HE aim of this volume is to describe the organization and functioning of the govern ment and political parties of Switzerland. His torical origins and development are discussed, it is true, but only in a summary way. In the main the author has directed attention to modern instances and recent illustrations, endeavoring thus to present his subject as it really is; namely, a small but very successful going concern in the line of democratic government. 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.
Excerpt from State and Federal, Government in Switzerland, Vol. 9 It is eminently appropriate that a study Of Switzerland should appear under the auspices of the Johns Hopkins University, since within its walls are kept the books and papers Of one Of the most eminent historians Of that country, Professor J. C. Bluntschli, who began his career in Zurich, but ended it at Heidelberg as an European authority upon inter national law. While yet in his native country he wrote extensively upon the history Of Zurich, and upon the consti tutional history Of the whole confederation. At his death, in 1881, his library, manuscripts, and historical materials were purchased by German citizens Of Baltimore and presented to this University. TO this collection was added, in 1886, a large number Of books and pamphlets relating to the history and government Of Switzerland, presented by the Federal Council at Bern, through the kind mediation Of the Hon. Emile Frey, then minister plenipotentiary Of Switzerland at Washington, now a member Of the Federal Cabinet. It was largely due to these gifts that a study Of Switzerland was made possible without continuous residence in that country. 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.
Excerpt from The Constitution of Switzerland Q, The cantons are sovereign in so far as their sovereignty is not limited by the federal constitution, and, as such, they exercise all the powers which are not delegated to the federal government. 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.
Excerpt from The Federal Government of Switzerland: An Essay on the Constitution Tlements, liberty and equality were, in a certain sense, imposed upon the people by the circum stances of colonial life. Yet, however favorable to liberty and equality may have been the con ditions of colonial life in some parts of America, there existed in other parts a superior counter acting force in the despotic traditions of the mother country. This was particularly true with reference to the Spanish colonies which were planted in the New World in the sixteenth century. Of these, Mexico is a conspicuous example. Although now in the list of federal republics, yet it could not claim even nominal independence and liberty till after three centuries of uncompromising despotism. Most English colonial dependencies have worked their way to prominence through a struggling age of feeble ness. And in the effort have prepared themselves to win and defend their liberty. But the Span ish dependencies have been from the outset equipped with ample legal machinery, and been controlled and supported by the sagacity and power of the monarch, and in this state of com plete subordination have lost much of the self assertion and self-control which are requisite to the character of a free people. 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.
Excerpt from Seven Letters on the Recent Politics of Switzerland But the original edition had long been out of print, and it has not been without difficulty that a copy has been found to meet the demands of those who now desire to re-peruse the Letters. When it was determined to reprint them, it was deemed a fitting occasion to produce a letter addressed by the Author to M. Alexis de Tocque ville, wherein he takes a retrospective view of the closing Incidents of this internecine conflict. It finishes the story, as it were; and the reader will have the leading points more clearly fixed in his mind than they would have been left at the end of Letter VII. 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.
Excerpt from The Rise of the Swiss Republic: A History There is another fact which must be borne in mind, namely, that Swiss self-government, in the opinion of the writer the most perfect yet devised by any free people, is Teutonic in character, like that of England and the United States. Although Switzerland is now a polyglot state, and her constitution expressly stipulates that Ger man, French and Italian shall all alike be considered national lan guages, the majority of the inhabitants are German-speaking, and it was from them that the original impulse toward independence made itself felt. The other Romance-speaking Cantons were acquired by conquest, and were not admitted on a footing of equality until the beginning of the present century. 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.
Excerpt from William Tell; Or, Switzerland Delivered To suffer death in the endeavour to overthrow such oppression, they considered preferable to a base submission to the tyranny of a wretch like Gesler. Tell and his companions waited for an opportunity to revenge themselves on their oppressors. The multiplied crimes of the cruel Gesler, soon afforded them such a trial. The cries of the injured, and the general hatred, forced the oppressed into a compact for their deliverance. The particulars are thus stated in "Switzerland Illustrated," by Dr. Beattie: - "After Gesler's appointment the tolls were raised, the most venial offences punished with imprisonment and forfeiture, and the inhabitants treated with every mark of contempt. Happening one day to ride past a newly-built house belonging to Stauffacher, in the village of Stenin, - "What!" exclaimed Gesler, "shall it be endured that these grovelling peasants should erect such an edifice as this? If boors are to be so lodged - quid facient magistri?" This picture of Austrian government in Switzerland, in the fourteenth century, does not materially differ from Austrian government in Germany and Italy at the present day. If more deference be now paid to external appearance, the same rooted hatred to liberty is still shown by the Austrian despot. Look to the victims of freedom pining in the dungeons of those countries. Tell and his friends took measures for their country's redress. "The rendezvous selected for the meeting of the patriots, was a lonely sequestered strip of meadow, in the angle of the lake, called Grutli, surrounded by thickets, at the foot of the Brunnen. They met again in this place, when each of them, in proof of the desire felt for the redress of their wrongs, presented ten confederates each. With uplifted hands, and eyes fixed upon the starry firmament, under whose friendly canopy their meetings had been matured into action, they bound themselves by an express vow, to redress their country's injuries; to have no interest at heart but the common welfare; to endure no wrongs, to commit no trespass." Gesler in the wantonness of his power, set his hat on a pole in the market-place of Altorff, and compelled all the inhabitants to pay the same homage to it as to his own person. "William Tell the cross-bowman of Burglen, and one of the heroes of Grutli, passed the symbol of tyranny without paying it the proper honours, he was instanly arrested and brought before Gesler. 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.
Excerpt from Notes of a Traveller, on the Social and Political State of France, Prussia, Switzerland, Italy, and Other Parts of Europe: During the Present Century The present generation stands in a very remarkable historical epoch - at the close of an old state of things in the political and social economy of Europe, and at the rise and formation of a new. Old laws and institutions, the old distribution of property, privilege, and power, no longer rest upon the old basis in any part of Europe, are no longer supported by the universal conformity and implicit faith and acceptance of society. Where they still survive the storm of the French Revolution, they hold but a lingering existence, for the roots in the human mind which supported them are shaken. An aristocracy founded upon property, birth, education, respect of the people, and honour, exists in all its ancient integrity in England only. On the continent, even where the principle of aristocracy is not abolished by an alteration in the feudal law of succession, it is abolished by the precedence given to government employment, civil and military, over all other distinctions, and by the general diffusion among people in no way belonging to the class of nobility, of personal wealth, social influence, high education, refinement of manners, and all that formerly separated aristocracy from the other elements of the social body. 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.
Excerpt from A Sovereign People: A Study of Swiss Democracy Although it has been my endeavour to follow out as far as possible the chief threads of interest indicated in the note-books, the universality of his sympathy with all movements of social betterment led him in his conversation or his reading to touch many themes which he had not time or opportunity to elabo rate. At certain places indeed his plan of study radiated into an intricacy of design which a whole lifetime would hardly have sufficed to execute, as the vast collection of pamphlets and official documents relating to the minutiae of cantonal and municipal politics serves to illustrate. Had he lived to carry through his work, he would doubtless have exercised here that fine quality of judgment in selection which he has exhibited in his other books. Many of these minor points which, breaking in upon his main investigations, find a record in the notes I have been compelled to ignore. But, with one exception, I have tried to develop and express what he regarded as the chief lessons which Swiss democracy had to teach the world at large and his own countrymen in par ticular. This exception is the banking system in the cantons and the larger cities. Mr. Lloyd's inquiries into this impor tant subject made it evident that he intended to devote some space to Swiss finance when he came to write his book. But he had not had time to go far enough into this intricately tech nical subject to indicate clearly the path of exposition he would follow, and I deemed it safer and fairer to omit an attempt at interpretation in which there would have been considerable danger of misrepresenting his views. 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.