Voting as a way of life.(Voting as a way of life)

The Economist (US) | February 14, 2004 | Copyright

We have 700-odd years of practice

Being a Swiss citizen is hard work. Well, that's democracy

"FORTUNATE events have put me at the head of the French government, but I would consider myself incapable of governing the Swiss," Napoleon Bonaparte told a Swiss delegation in 1802. "The more I think about your country, the more convinced I become that the disparity between its constituent parts makes it impossible to impose a common pattern on it: everything points to federalism."

Napoleon came and went, but the Swiss disparities remained. They culminated ...

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