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The republic of Switzerland, formerly a league of semi-independent states, or ‘ Staatenbund,’ has become a united confederacy, or ‘Bundesstaat,’ since the year 1848. The present constitution, based on fundamental laws passed in 1848, came into force May 29, 1874, having received the national sanction by a general vote of the people, given April 19, 1874. It vests the supreme legislative and executive authority in a parliament of two chambers, a ‘ Standerath,’ or State Council, and a ‘ Nationalrath,’ or National Council. The first is composed of forty-four members chosen by the twenty-two cantons of the Confederation, two for each canton. The ‘Nationalrath’ consists of 135 representatives of the Swiss people, chosen in direct election, at the rate of one deputy for every 20,000 souls.
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Statistical and other Books of Reference concerning Switzerland. 1. Official Publications.
Eidgenössische Volkszählung vom 1 December, 1880. 4. Bern, 1881.
Geschäftsberichte des schweizerischen Bundesraths an die Bundesversammlung. 8. Bern, 1875–81.
Message du Conseil fédéral à la haute Assemblée fédérale concernant le recensement fédéral du 1 décembre 1880. 8. Bern, 1881.
Résultats du compte d’état de la Confédération suisse pour l’année 1876. 4. Bern, 1878.
Uebersichts-Tabelle der Ein-, Aus-und Durchfuhr im Jahr 1878, mit Angabe der Grenzstrecken über welche dieser Verkehr stattgefunden hat. Fol. Bern, 1879.
Schweizerische Statistik. Herausgegeben vom Statistischen Bureau des Eidgenöss. Departements des Innern. 4. Bern, 1870–81.
Report by Mr. G. T. Gould, British Secretary of Legation, on the financial position of the Swiss Confederation, dated Geneva, Dec. 24, 1871 ; in ‘Reports by H.M.’s Secretaries of Embassy and Légation.’ No.I. 1872. 8. London, 1872.
Report by Mr. Horace Rublee, Minister Resident of the United States, on the revision of the Constitution of Switzerland, dated Berne, July 3, 1871 ; in ‘Papers relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States.’ 8. Washington, 1871.
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2. Non-Official Publications.
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Martin, F. (1882). Switzerland. In: The Statesman’s Year-Book. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230253117_17
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