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Page 22 - in the first place, a body of countries such as the Cantons of Switzerland, the Colonies of America, or the Provinces of Canada, so closely connected by locality, by history, by race, or the like, as to be capable of bearing, in the eyes of their inhabitants, an impress of common nationality. It will also be generally found
Page 64 - The members of the Federal Council, we will venture to affirm, yield to no other government in Europe in devotion to their country, in incessant hard work for a poor salary, and in thorough honesty and incorruptibility. A diplomatist, who knew them well and appreciated their good qualities, aptly remarked that they reminded him of a characteristic industry of their own
Page 76 - The Referendum is of two kinds, compulsory and optional. It is compulsory in certain Cantons where all laws adopted by the Grand Council or other representative body of a Canton must be submitted to the people, and optional where limited to those cases in which a certain number of voters demand it. In
Page 78 - its introduction, became its earnest supporters when they found that it undoubtedly acted as a drag upon hasty and radical law-making. It has given back to . the people of Switzerland rights originally possessed by them in most of the old Cantons, but partly or wholly lost in the course of time.
Page 163 - when Irish Christianity flung itself with a fiery zeal into battle with the mass of heathenism which was rolling in upon the Christian world.
Page 144 - there is the proper proportion of cavalry, artillery, engineers, and transport ; the battalions are kept up to their full strength and all in readiness for service. In fact, all the adjuncts for making an army a mobile factor in the field are, with the Swiss system of administration, complete and in thorough working order.