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Early Modern Democracy in the Grisons: Social Order and Political Language in a Swiss Mountain Canton, 1470–1620

Randolph C. Head · Cambridge University Press · 1995

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Book
Author
Randolph C. Head
Identifier
DOI 10.1017/CBO9780511523335
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2026-09-01
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Cambridge Studies in Early Modern History; ISBN 0521470862. The conclusion is titled 'Democracy in early modern Graubünden' (pp. 246–252).

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EstablishedIn 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.