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The second chapter declares the federal power about areas that require uniform regulation, such as relations with foreign states, security, national and civil defence, general aspects about education, research, culture, the aspects about environment and spatial planning, public construction works and
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towards the world". The latter provision about the "openness" present a drastic contrast with the previous Swiss constitutions which were mostly oriented toward the internal isolationism. The new preamble also provides a provision about responsibility before and the rights of the future generations
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It provides an explicit provision for nine fundamental rights, which up until then had only been discussed and debated in the Federal Court. It also provides for greater details in tax laws. The Constitution of 1999 has been changed by popular initiative ten times in the period of 2002 to 2014, as
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The Federal Constitution was wholly revised for the second time in the 1990s, when the new version was approved by popular and cantonal vote on 18 April 1999. It came into force on 1 January 2000. The 1999 Constitution of Switzerland consists of a preamble and six parts, which together make up 196
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Title 5 regulates the function and responsibilities of the Federal Government. It provides for three branches of the government represented by three bodies: the Federal Assembly (two chambers, representing the Legislative power), Federal Council (the Executive power), and the Federal Court (the
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transport, energy and communications, economy in general, concerns about housing, employment, social security and health, about the rights of residence and settlement of foreign nationals, and finally about the responsibility regarding the civil and criminal law, weights and measures.
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Title 2 also covers the essential rules on the acquisition of Swiss citizenship and of the exercise of political rights. Furthermore, it contains a number of not directly enforceable "social goals" which the state shall strive to ensure, including the availability of
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in continuance of Swiss constitutional tradition. It is a mandate to the State authorities by the Swiss people and cantons, as the Confederation's constituent powers, to adhere to the values listed in the preamble, which include
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Title 3 describes in the first chapter the relationships between the Confederation, the cantons and the communes. The cantons retain their own constitutions, but in the case of contradiction the Federal Constitution prevails.
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Title 2 refers to Swiss people as "women and men of Switzerland" as a sign of acknowledging gender discrimination in the past (Switzerland became the second to last country in Europe that granted,
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The general provisions contained in Title 1 (articles 1–6) define the characteristic traits of the Swiss state on all of its three levels of authority: federal, cantonal and
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in 1830, a number of large assemblies were held calling for new cantonal constitutions. The modifications to the cantonal constitutions made during this period of "
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Judicial power). The main differences compared to the previous constitution deal with the supervisory activity of the Federal Court of the Federal Legislature.
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decided to codify that case law in the form of a comprehensive bill of rights, which is substantially congruent with the rights guaranteed in the ECHR, the
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English is not an official language of the Swiss Confederation. This translation is provided for information purposes only and has no legal force.
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Twelve such changes were made in the period of 1893 to 1994 (with no changes during the thirty-year period of 1950–1980):
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of independent states, not a federal state; as such it was based on treaties rather than a constitution. The
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the Confederacy, while the individual cantons drew up cantonal constitutions, in most respects based on the
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Elgie, Robert (2016). "Government Systems, Party Politics, and Institutional Engineering in the Round".
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Bernhard Ehrenzeller, Philipp Mastronardi, Rainer J. Schweizer, Klaus A. Vallender (eds.) (2002).
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Title 6 regulates the revisions of the Federal Constitution as well as transitional provisions.
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Memorial page to mark the revision of the federal constitution of 1874, featuring the motto "
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of November 1847. As a result of the Sonderbund War, Switzerland was transformed into a
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and consists of 35 articles. The 1874 constitution contained only a limited number of
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texts of Federal Constitution of the Swiss Confederation of 18 April 1999 (SR 101)
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Title 4 clarifies fundamental political rights and in particular the rights for
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The third chapter clarifies general financial aspects, in particular taxation.
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and the first title of the Constitution determine the general outlines of
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Title 6 Revision of the Federal Constitution and Transitional Provisions
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within the bounds of the Constitution and list the national languages –
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guaranteed in article 53 of the old constitution. In consequence, the
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The political crisis of the Regeneration period culminated in the
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Revision of the Federal Constitution and Transitional Provisions
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of 1798–1803 had a constitution largely drawn up by
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Title 2 Fundamental Rights, Citizenship and Social Goals
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In the course of the 1999 constitutional revision, the
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and applying the fundamental rights guaranteed in the
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Preamble and Title 1 of the Swiss Federal Constitution
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Bundesverfassung der Schweizerischen Eidgenossenschaft
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International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
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