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kubb • today at 1:42 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

The system was introduced around 170 years ago and it was done very suddenly after a civil-religious war won by protestant liberals.


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qwytw • today at 1:52 PM

On the federal level yes but that only reduced the autonomy that the cantons had, it didn't introduce a fundamentally different system of government, most decisions were still taken on the local level.