* 1799 – Henri Druey, Swiss Federal Councilor ( d. 1855 )

* 1291 – The Old Swiss Confederacy is formed with the signature of the Federal Charter.

Ten years later ( 24 September 1856 ) the Swiss Federal Council voted them equal political rights with other Swiss citizens in that canton, as well as entire freedom of commerce ; but the opposition of the Christian population prevented the decision from being generally carried out.

* Swiss Federal Council

Brick was revived for high structures in the 1950s following work by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and the Building Research Establishment in Watford, UK.

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

These include the largest, the Swiss People's Party ( SVP ), the Christian Democratic People's Party ( CVP ), represented in the Federal Council or cabinet by Doris Leuthard ( in 2011 ), and the Conservative Democratic Party of Switzerland ( BDP ), which is a spliter of the SVP created after a failed attempt to expel Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf from the SVP.

The census is now being conducted by the Swiss Federal Statistical Office.

* 1908 – Pierre Graber, Swiss Federal Councilor ( d. 2003 )

* 1802 – Wilhelm Matthias Naeff, Swiss Federal Councillor ( d. 1881 )

* 1941 – Kaspar Villiger, Swiss Federal Councilor

* Honorary Doctor of Technical Science, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zurich ( 1991 )

The 2012 Swiss Federal Council, the seven-member collective Head of State of the Switzerland | Swiss Confederation ( the Federal Chancellor of Switzerland | Federal Chancellor is also depicted, at the right )

A collective head of state can exist in republics ( internal complexity ): e. g. nominal triumvirates ; the Directoire ; the seven-member Swiss Federal Council, where each member acts in turn as ceremonial chief of state ); Bosnia and Herzegovina ( three member presidium, from three different nations ); San Marino ( two " Captains-regent "), which maintains the tradition of Italian medieval republics, where there always was an even number of consuls.

He showed it to the mathematician Eduard Stiefel of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich ( Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule ( ETH ) Zürich ) who ordered one in 1950.

Its population is primarily ethnic Alemannic, although its resident population is approximately one third foreign-born, primarily German speakers from the Federal Republic of Germany, Austria, and the Swiss Confederation, other Swiss, Italians, and Turks.

** Members of the Swiss Federal Council

* 1811 – Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel, Swiss politician, member of the Swiss Federal Council ( d. 1893 )

Article 58. 1 of the April 18, 1999, Federal Constitution of the Swiss Confederation ( official, French version ) provides that " Switzerland has an army.

They proposed a new Constitution for the Swiss Confederation which would draw the several cantons into a closer relationship.

In addition to the centralization of the Swiss government, the new Constitution also included protections for trade and other progressive reform measures.

The 1999 Swiss Constitution declares the preservation of Switzerland's independence and welfare as the supreme objective of Swiss foreign policy.

* September 12 – One of the successes of the Revolutions of 1848, the Swiss Federal Constitution, patterned on the US Constitution, enters into force, creating a federal republic and one of the first modern democratic states in Europe.

* Preamble and Title 1 of the Swiss Federal Constitution

For referendums or propositions in general terms ( like the principle of a general revision of the Constitution ), the majority of those voting is enough ( Swiss constitution, 2005 ).

This effort was crushed in the Sonderbund war and a new Swiss Federal Constitution was created.

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.

It was included in the Swiss Federal Constitution in 1891, permitting a certain number of citizens ( currently 100, 000 ) to make a request to amend a constitutional article, or even to introduce a new article into the constitution.

Shopping hours are governed by cantonal law and vary accordingly, while the only federally mandated store holiday is August 1 ( national holiday ), as per article 110 III of the Swiss Constitution.

Romansh has been recognized as one of four " national languages " by the Swiss Federal Constitution since 1938.

In 1874, the Swiss Federal Constitution was completely revised, which created conflicts with the Schwyz cantonal constitution.

The Swiss Federal Constitution declares the cantons to be sovereign to the extent their sovereignty is not limited by federal law.

After the defeat of the Sonderbund, Uri supported the new Swiss Federal Constitution.

The Constitution says Swiss citizens must respect the dignity of animals, plants, and other organisms.

The Swiss Constitution states at Article 7, " Human dignity is to be respected and protected.

In 1996 he was made president of the committee in charge of the total revision of the Swiss Constitution.

In order to solve this problem, the new Swiss Federal Constitution of 1848 specified that the Federal Government would be the only entity allowed to make money in Switzerland.

In November 2009 this ban won the majority vote ( 57. 5 %) and became an amendment to the Swiss Constitution.

The inventory includes original documents such as the Swiss Constitution, deeds, photos, films, recordings and databases.

Swiss motorways have general speed limits of 120 km / h ( 75 mph ).

Palmenthal, the first European settlement within the limits of Palmdale, was established as a village on April 20, 1886 by westward Lutheran travelers from the American Midwest, mostly of German and Swiss descent.

The event reached its limits when the Club arrived in St. Moritz with a London double-decker bus, wanting to send it down the ski slopes, and the Swiss resort managers refused.