FOOTNOTES:
[103] There is, in fact, no office in Switzerland similar to that of the United States President, though foreigners nearly always speak of the President of the Swiss Republic, when they mean simply the Chairman of the Cabinet.
[104] The reader is referred for fuller information to the most interesting account by Sir F. O. Adams and Mr. Cunningham in "The Swiss Confederation" (Longmans).
[105] Kern, "Souvenirs Suisses," pp. 124-129, where other instances of Napoleon's goodwill in 1848-9 are mentioned.
[106] Legislative Acts are, in fact, referred to the whole people for approval or disapproval, as in limited monarchies they are referred to the sovereign. But in Switzerland the veto possessed by the people is a real thing, and not a virtual impossibility, as in England for instance.
[107] For further notes on the Referendum, see Adams and Cunningham's "Swiss Confederation," alluded to above. The Referendum seems likely to attract increasing attention, in England and America especially.
