Every adult Swiss citizen is eligible, but in practice, only Members of Parliament or more rarely, members of Cantonal governments are nominated by the political parties and receive a substantial amount of votes.

The Depot of Archeology of Basel-land, the Frenkenbrücke ( bridge ), the Munzach which was a Roman farmhouse, the roman aqueduct and the Cantonal Archive of Basel-Landschaft are listed as Swiss heritage site of national significance.

By 2005, it held 23, 8 % of the seats in the Swiss Cantonal governments and 23, 2 % in the Swiss Cantonal parliaments ( index " BADAC ", weighted with the population and number of seats ).

In 2005, it held 20. 7 % of the seats in the Swiss Cantonal governments and 16. 7 % in the Swiss Cantonal parliaments ( index " BADAC ", weighted with the population and number of seats ).

The Cantonal Archives of Vaud in Chavannes-près-Renens is listed as a Swiss heritage site of national significance.

The Archives of Modern Construction at the EPFL, the Cantonal Library and University of Lausanne manuscripts department and the Fondation Jean Monnet pour l ’ Europe are listed as Swiss heritage site of national significance.

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The Swiss constitutional provisions relating to the organization of the Federal Government and Federal Administration are set out in section 1 of Chapter 3 of the Swiss Federal Constitution at articles 174 to 179.

In a modern context, it covers the work of the Swiss Federal Customs Administration and the Swiss Border Guard.

Dr. Schwab holds a Doctorate in Economics ( summa cum laude ) from the University of Fribourg, a Doctorate in Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and a Master of Public Administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

While modern M16s and equipment are standard issue, much of the secondary equipment used by the Ghanaian military is generally older than that used in Western military forces, and Ghanaian troops frequently rely on British, Brazilian, Swiss, Swedish, Israeli, and Finnish weaponry.

* The expression of the " Gnomes of Zürich ", Swiss bankers pictured as diminutive creatures hoarding gold in subterranean vaults, was coined in 1956 by Harold Wilson and gained currency in the 1960s ( OED notes the New Statesman issue of 27 November 1964 as earliest attestation ).

On the issue of reparations, he barely acknowledges the wrongs committed by the Swiss and German institutions — the burying of Jewish bank accounts, the use of slave labor — that gave rise to the recent reparations drive.

The issue of language choice has become a major influence in the Swiss hip hop scene: As author Pascale Hofmeier notes, the creation of " Mundartrap " ( dialect rap ) has enabled Switzerland to develop a unique scene that, due to the lingual choice, is immediately identifiable as a distinctly Swiss product.

Some of the other issues had been accepted by the Swiss ministers, but the main body of Amish and the Reist side were never able to reconcile on the issue of social shunning.

The Swiss military actually redesigned their 5. 56 mm assault rifle bullet to prevent this, to more fully comply with the spirit of the Hague Convention, though according to some sources the present GP90 5. 56x45mm Swiss assault rifle ammunition was actually designed as an armor-piercing bullet, because in the 1980s it was perceived that the Soviets and their Warsaw Pact allies were going to issue soft body armor to infantry units on a wide basis, but after the end of the Cold War, the Bofors corporation, having spent a great deal of money on developing the new bullet, changed the sales pitch in order to sell it to the Swiss government.

The settlement, which coincided with UBS's merger with Swiss Bank, together with the bank's embarrassment in the Long Term Capital Management collapse in 1998 brought a degree of closure to the issue.

In addition to these bank acquisitions, UBS also acquired an 80 % stake in Argor SA, a Swiss precious metal refinery founded in 1951, through whom they started to issue UBS branded gold bars.

The previous issue became known as the Swiss dinar and continued to circulate in the Kurdish region of Iraq.

Canton Zurich also issued a stamp in 1850, known to collectors as the Winterthur issue, depicting the Swiss federal cross and a posthorn, which served as a transitional issue until the stamps of the Swiss federal government made their appearance later that same year.

Since that time, Swiss stamps have generally followed a regular pattern ; an issue of about four commemoratives on a single date in the spring, and a similar group in the fall, as well as a Europa issue, usually in the spring.

Starting in the 1980s, there have been additional themed issues ; for instance, in 1993 an issue of four stamps featured works of art by Swiss women.

In 1908 the Swiss government, wanting to prevent an issue over regional favouritism, but perhaps wanting a bit of competition in hopes of lowering prices, split the contract with Victorinox and Wenger, each getting half of the orders placed.

Since 1961 the military issue knives supplied to the Swiss Armed Forces bear the Swiss Coat of Arms.

Since the first issue as personal equipment in 1891 the Soldatenmesser ( Soldier Knives ) issued by the Swiss Armed Forces have been revised several times.

A new major pensioner issue arose as the latest batches of retirees started to receive pensions calculated by the Ministry of Finance according to a newly accepted formula ( referred to as " the Swiss formula " in local media ).

The settlement, which coincided with UBS's merger with Swiss Bank, together with the bank's embarrassment in the Long Term Capital Management collapse in 1998 brought a degree of closure to the issue.

But then one day, while on a week's visit to the country home of a retired Swiss jeweler, Rousseau amused the company with a few little melodies he had written, to which he attached no great importance.

Fashion a sharp scribing point about 3/64'' '' long on one end, using Swiss pattern files.

He set out on his 700-mile return journey with five families of discontented and disappointed Swiss who turned their eyes toward the United States.

By fall, 443 survivors of this arduous journey were clustered about Fort Snelling, but most of them were sent on to Galena and St. Louis, with a few going as far as Vevay, Indiana, a notable Swiss center in the United States.

( If a dragon or a sea monster came along, didn't he have a red Swiss hunting knife on his belt -- ten blades and a corkscrew??

The well-known " Ranz des Vaches " ( score ; audio ) is a traditional Swiss melody often heard on the alphorn.

Aarau is situated on the Swiss plateau, in the valley of the Aar, on the river's right bank, and at the southern foot of the Jura mountains, and is west of Zurich.

Fricktal, ceded in 1802 by Austria via Napoleonic France to the Helvetic Republic, was briefly a separate Swiss canton under a Statthalter (' Lieutenant '), but on 9 March 1803 was incorporated in the canton of Aargau.

But on his arrival, all was chaos – " Scarcely had my troops got over when the dragoons and Swiss who had preceded us, came tumbling down upon my battalions in full flight … My own fellows turned about and fled along with them.

** EuroAirport Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg – pedestrian walkway between the French and Swiss sections on Level 3 ( departures ) of airport.

An annual Federal Swiss trade fair ( Mustermesse ) takes place in Kleinbasel on the right bank of the Rhine.

In 2012 it was reported that a Swiss woman died of starvation after having attempted to survive on light alone, based on one of Jasmuheen's books.

After discussions on the Wikipedia page for Liechenstein, and contacts with the Swiss embassy in Washington, incorrect information that Switzerland had obligations to defend Liechenstein was eventually removed by the Factbook.

The Swiss philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau sent him the message: " Tell him I know no greater man on earth.

The National Speleological Society of the USA was later founded in 1941 ( originally formed as the Speleological Society of the District of Columbia on May 6, 1939 ) and the Swiss Society of Speleology created in 1939 in Geneva, but the first speleological institute in the world was founded in 1920 in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, by Emil Racovita, a Romanian biologist, zoologist, speleologist and explorer of Antarctica.

Albrecht von Haller, a Swiss physician and physiologist made note in his 1747 book on physiology that the " water " in the brain was secreted into the ventricles and absorbed in the veins, and when secreted in excess, could lead to hydrocephalus.

It did, however, hit # 7 on the Austrian and Swiss music charts and # 8 in Norway.

During his honeymoon in the Harz mountains, Cantor spent much time in mathematical discussions with Richard Dedekind, whom he had met two years earlier while on Swiss holiday.

In 2007 the agglomération franco-valdo-genevoise had 812, 000 inhabitants, two-thirds of whom lived on Swiss soil and one-third on French soil.

* Swiss Gemmological Institute ( SSEF ), founded by Henry Hänni, focusing on colored gemstones and the identification of natural pearls.

The second ( 2003 ) edition contained 100 pages of new material, primarily in chapter 3 on the Swiss Banks lawsuit.