• Thumbnail for Swiss Federal Constitution
    The Federal Constitution of the Swiss Confederation (SR 10; German: Bundesverfassung der Schweizerischen Eidgenossenschaft (BV); French: Constitution fédérale...
    18 KB (1,875 words) - 04:02, 24 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Federal Assembly (Switzerland)
    The Federal Assembly, also Swiss parliament, is the federal bicameral legislature of Switzerland. The lower house is the 200-seat National Council and...
    21 KB (1,244 words) - 09:00, 11 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Switzerland as a federal state
    The rise of Switzerland as a federal state began on 12 September 1848, with the creation of a federal constitution in response to a 27-day civil war, the...
    12 KB (1,458 words) - 09:00, 11 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for President of the Swiss Confederation
    Procedure of Chapter 3 Federal Council and Federal Administration of the Title 5 Federal Authorities of the Swiss Federal Constitution at articles 174 to...
    9 KB (1,015 words) - 21:00, 5 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cantons of Switzerland
    The 26 cantons of Switzerland are the member states of the Swiss Confederation. The nucleus of the Swiss Confederacy in the form of the first three confederate...
    60 KB (4,746 words) - 07:02, 11 March 2024
  • The seven members of the Swiss Federal Council (German: Schweizerischer Bundesrat; French: Conseil fédéral suisse; Italian: Consiglio federale svizzero;...
    72 KB (899 words) - 04:04, 20 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland
    supreme court of the Swiss Confederation and at the head of the Swiss judiciary. The Federal Supreme Court is headquartered in the Federal Courthouse in Lausanne...
    17 KB (1,619 words) - 16:28, 4 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Politics of Switzerland
    Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland, whose judges are elected by the Federal Assembly. For any change in the constitution, a referendum is mandatory...
    29 KB (2,957 words) - 15:44, 23 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Popular initiative in Switzerland
    tool at the federal level in the 1891 partial revision of the Swiss Federal Constitution. Between 1893 and 2014, out of a total of 192 federal initiatives...
    16 KB (901 words) - 20:50, 15 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Switzerland
    Weissenbach. The state of Switzerland took its present form with the adoption of the Swiss Federal Constitution in 1848. Switzerland's precursors established...
    235 KB (20,233 words) - 14:21, 24 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Federal Council (Switzerland)
    The Federal Council is the federal cabinet of the Swiss Confederation. Its seven members also serve as the collective head of state and government of...
    49 KB (5,426 words) - 15:34, 18 April 2024
  • Federal Constitution may refer to: the United States Constitution the Swiss Federal Constitution the Malaysian Federal Constitution the Federal Constitution...
    487 bytes (85 words) - 20:02, 25 July 2023
  • Thumbnail for Languages of Switzerland
    the population of Switzerland were native speakers of German (either Swiss or Standard German) at home; 22.8% French (mostly Swiss French, but including...
    38 KB (2,926 words) - 03:52, 19 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Federal courts of Switzerland
    process. The Federal Supreme Court in Lausanne is established in the Swiss Federal Constitution as the supreme judicial authority of Switzerland. It is the...
    2 KB (206 words) - 19:03, 19 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Federal Treaty
    defeated Napoleon. The Federal Treaty defined a confederation between 22 independent Cantons. From 1815 until the Swiss Federal Constitution of 1848, it acted...
    5 KB (604 words) - 22:28, 31 January 2023
  • Thumbnail for Swiss Guards
    outlawed by the first Swiss Federal Constitution of 1848 and a federal Law of 1859, with the only exception being the Pontifical Swiss Guard (Latin: Pontificia...
    21 KB (2,759 words) - 08:49, 14 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Swiss nationality law
    order: a Swiss citizen is defined as someone who has the citizenship of a Swiss municipality (article 37 of the Swiss Federal Constitution). They are...
    32 KB (3,438 words) - 17:42, 16 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Federal Palace of Switzerland
    The Federal Palace is a building in Bern housing the Swiss Federal Assembly (legislature) and the Federal Council (executive). It is the seat of the government...
    51 KB (5,917 words) - 09:00, 11 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sonderbund War
    Sonderbund War (category 1847 in Switzerland)
    1848, a new Swiss Federal Constitution ended the almost complete independence of the cantons and transformed Switzerland into a federal state. The Jesuits...
    29 KB (3,605 words) - 09:00, 11 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Religion in Switzerland
    Religion in Switzerland is predominantly Christianity. According to the national survey of the Swiss Federal Statistical Office, in 2020, Christians accounted...
    55 KB (4,213 words) - 23:24, 8 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Restoration and Regeneration in Switzerland
    Modern Switzerland was formed by the first Federal Constitution. Switzerland in the Napoleonic era Revolutions of 1848 Switzerland as a federal state The...
    16 KB (1,696 words) - 21:57, 8 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for National Council (Switzerland)
    not Romansh. Under the Swiss Federal Constitution, elections for the National Council are held every four years by the Swiss people. The most recent...
    20 KB (1,684 words) - 09:00, 11 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Preamble and Title 1 of the Swiss Federal Constitution
    first title of the Swiss Federal Constitution of 18 April 1999 determine the general outlines of Switzerland as a democratic federal republic of 26 cantons...
    7 KB (849 words) - 21:43, 9 January 2021
  • Thumbnail for Constitution
    maintaining a hereditary monarch limited by the constitution, like the Spanish one. The first Swiss Federal Constitution was put in force in September 1848 (with...
    98 KB (10,939 words) - 18:38, 5 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for 2009 Swiss minaret referendum
    from the Swiss People's Party and the Federal Democratic Union of Switzerland, the Egerkinger Komittee ("Egerkingen Committee") launched a federal popular...
    50 KB (5,045 words) - 13:02, 29 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Federal Department of Foreign Affairs
    safeguard Switzerland's interests abroad and its relations with other countries, as stipulated in Art. 54, para. 1 of the Swiss Federal Constitution. The subsequent...
    11 KB (1,124 words) - 12:39, 4 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Federal Act on Banks and Savings Banks
    Swiss parliament launched a standing initiative and expressed an interest in formally embedding banking secrecy within the Swiss Federal Constitution...
    38 KB (3,982 words) - 10:26, 4 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Banking in Switzerland
    derived from the Swiss Financial Market Supervision Act (FINMASA) and Article 98 of the Swiss Federal Constitution. The office of the Swiss Banking Ombudsman...
    100 KB (9,822 words) - 01:16, 29 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Swiss franc
    Switzerland and Liechtenstein. It is also legal tender in the Italian exclave of Campione d'Italia which is surrounded by Swiss territory. The Swiss National...
    66 KB (6,191 words) - 22:03, 21 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Modern history of Switzerland
    Regeneration (Switzerland) for the period of 1815–1848. Following a 27-day civil war in Switzerland, the Sonderbundskrieg, the Swiss Federal Constitution was passed...
    18 KB (1,402 words) - 04:16, 13 April 2024