Early Modern Democracy in the Grisons: Social Order and Political Language in a Swiss Mountain Canton, 1470–1620
Randolph C. Head — Early Modern Democracy in the Grisons: Social Order and Political Language in a Swiss Mountain Canton, 1470–1620 (1995)Randolph C. Head · 1995 · Book · title; conclusion, pp. 246–252EstablishedSource attached · not independently reviewedCLM-0380 · as of 2026-10-27 · about: Old Swiss Confederacy (to 1798) · Author: Polity Atlas editorial team
“In the Grisons (Three Leagues), an associate of the Confederacy, the court communes voted on the resolutions of the Leagues' diet, a procedure called the referendum, an order Randolph Head analyses as early modern democracy.”
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2Referendum
Bernard Degen — Referendum (2011)Bernard Degen · 2011 · Web page · section on the Three LeaguesEvidence that contradicts
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