Switzerland
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Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
Cited twice as an example of a country whose democratic institutions rest on independent landowners and the referendum.
No man, however, can dispute that the existence of such a territorial democracy contributes in Switzerland, in France, and in the United States to the prosperity and the effectiveness of popular institutions.
[lxxix] government in Switzerland;
A glance at the democracies, either of the United States or of Switzerland, would show us in each case types of legislation differing alike from each other, and from the laws either of democratic England or of republican France.
Institutes of Roman Law
Modern country noted by the editor as the sole survival of the Roman doctrine of origo.
and, with the exception of Switzerland where it still prevails, the doctrine of Origo disappeared from those countries which are still influenced by Roman jurisprudence.
or (2) in more or less intimate unions of cantons, or states, such as we see in Switzerland, Germany, America;
An Essay on Crimes and Punishments
Named as one of the sites where religiously-motivated revolutions occurred.
Revolutions of a similar kind happened in Holland, in Scotland, and in Switzerland.