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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 ‘ Ständerath,’ 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 145 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. Officiai, Publications

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Keltie, J.S. (1885). Switzerland. In: Keltie, J.S. (eds) The Statesman’s Year-Book. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230253148_17

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