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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, product of a short civil war, bears date September 12, 1848. It vests the supreme legislative and executive authority in a parliament of two chambers, a ‘Stiinderath,’ 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 128 representatives of the Swiss people, chosen in direct election, at the rate of one deputy for every 20,000 souls. Thus, on the basis of the general census of 1860—in force till the declaration of the census of 1870—the cantons are represented as follows in the National Council:—
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Statistical and other Books of Reference concerning Switzerland
1. Official Publications
Schweizerische Statistik. Herausgegeben vom Statistischen Bureau des Eidgenöss. Departements des Innern. 4. Bern, 1869.
Schweizerische Statistik, Bevolkerun. Eidgenössische Volkszählung vom 10. Dec. 1860. 4. Bern, 1862.
Statistique de la Suisse. Commerce de la France avec la Suisse pendant les onze années 1851–1861. 4. Bern, 1863.
Waarenverkehr der Schweiz mit besonderer Berucksichtigung auf den Zollverein und Oesterreich. 4. Bern, 1865.
Reports by Mr. Burnley, H. M.’s Secretary of Legation, on the Trade, Industry, Agriculture, Finance, and Popular Education of Switzerland, dated Juno 29, and Dec. 28, 1863, and June 20, 1864; in ‘Reports by H. M.’s Secretaries of Embassy.’ No. VII. London, 1864.
Reports by Mr. Rumbold, H. M.’s Secretary of Legation, on the Finances of Switzerland; dated May, 1866, and Feb., 1867; in ‘Reports by H. M.’s Secretaries of Embassy.’ Nos. I. and IV. 1867. London, 1867.
Report by Mr. Rumbold, H. M.’s Secretary of Embassy, ‘on the Trade and Industry of Switzerland, during the five years 1863 to 1868, ’ dated December, 1868; in ‘Reports of H. M.’s Secretaries of Embassy and Legation.’ No. II. 1869. London, 1869.
Report by Mr. Consul Mackenzie, ‘on tho Trado and Commerce of the Cantons of Switzerland,’ dated Geneva, July 24, 1868; in ‘Commercial Reports received at tho Foreign Office.’ No. XI., 1868 London, 1S68.
Reports by M. A. L. Wolff, U. S. Consul at Basel, dated July 16, 1867, and Mr. C. A. Page, U. S. Consul at Zurich, dated December 31, 1867, on the Trido and Industry of Switzerland; in. Consul at Zurich, dated December 31, 1867, on the Trido and Industry of Switzerland; in ’ Commercial Relations of the United States with Foreign Nations.’ 8. Washington, 1868.
Statistical Tables relating to Foreign Countries. Part XI. Fol. London, 1868.
2. Non-Official Publications
Berlepsch (H.A.) Schweizerkundo: Land, Volk, und Staat. 8. Brannschweig, 1864.
Gisi (Dr. Wilh.) Bevölkerungsstatistik der schweizerischen Eidgenossenschaft und ihrer Kantone. 8. Aarau, 1868.
Ilodlcr (J.), Allgemeine Grundsätze des natürlichen Staatsrechts mit vergleichender Berücksichtigung der Schweizerischen Bundesverfassung und der Berner Cantonsverfassung. 8. Bern, 1865.
Kolb (G. Fr.), Beiträge zur Statistik der Industrie und des Handels der Schweiz. 8. Zurich, 1859.
Stifft (A. von), Culturstudien. Kunst- und Reisebriefe aus der Schweiz und Deutschland. 2 vols. 8. Berlin, 1865.
Zeitschrift für Schweizerische Statistik. Herausgegeben von der Schweizerischen Statistischen Gesellschaft, under Mitwirkung des eidgenössischen Statistischen Bureaus. 8. Bern, 1865–69.
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Martin, F. (1870). Switzerland. In: The Statesman’s Year-Book. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230252998_14
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