{"id":8001,"date":"2023-05-12T13:27:25","date_gmt":"2023-05-12T13:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/?p=8001"},"modified":"2023-05-12T13:27:29","modified_gmt":"2023-05-12T13:27:29","slug":"the-swiss-constitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/the-swiss-constitution\/","title":{"rendered":"The Swiss Constitution"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It&#8217;s different, it&#8217;s always been republican, what do we have to learn from it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Wikipedia&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Swiss_Federal_Constitution\">page on the constitution<\/a>. As we&#8217;d expect it has citations, but not that many, and less in English. Amazon has a couple of books which might help. It describes itself as a Confederation where the Cantons have autonomy and their own constitutions. The right of citizens to initiate referenda is embedded. I have also bought &#8220;Swiss Democracy: Possible solutions &#8230;.&#8221;; there is more now i.e books than once.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s different, it&#8217;s always been republican, what do we have to learn from it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8002,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[140],"tags":[141,82],"class_list":["post-8001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-politics-2","tag-switzerland"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/swissbundeshaus-unsplash-hansjorgkeller-w1280-crpd.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8001"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8003,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8001\/revisions\/8003"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}