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A Concise History of Switzerland

Clive H. Church; Randolph C. Head · Cambridge University Press · 2013

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Type: Book
Author: Clive H. Church; Randolph C. Head
Identifier: DOI 10.1017/CBO9781139013765
Accessed: 2026-09-01

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EstablishedThe Old Swiss Confederacy had no common government: its diet (Tagsatzung) was a meeting of cantonal envoys who voted on instructions, majority decisions applied only to the jointly ruled territories, and other business required unanimity.EstablishedThe 1291 charter of Uri, Schwyz and Unterwalden was one of many comparable alliances; rediscovered in the eighteenth century, it was treated as the founding document of Switzerland only from the late nineteenth century, when the first federal celebration was held in 1891.