[25] In 1480 fifteen hundred executions took place in Switzerland.
[26] By a Federal law to carry out this amendment, the distilled liquors are sold for cash by the Confederation in minimum quantity of a hundred and fifty litres (0.88 quart), and the price to be fixed from time to time by the Federal Council; but it shall never be less than one hundred and twenty francs nor more than one hundred and fifty francs per hectolitre (twenty-two gallons) of pure alcohol. Denaturalized spirits to be sold at cost price for technical and household use.
[27] The Swiss Constitution contains 7700 words and 127 articles (including temporary provisions); that of the United States, 5300 words, divided into 37 sections.
[28] “American Historical Association,” vol. i., p. 37. Professor Scott.
[29] It was the original purpose of the writer to include, as an appendix to this volume, a translation of the Swiss Constitution; a faithful search having failed to discover any publication of it in English. But having ascertained that during the current year two such translations had appeared, one by Professor Edmund J. James, University of Pennsylvania, the other by Professor Albert Bushnell Hart, of Harvard, copies were obtained, and found to meet, in a most satisfactory and excellent manner, every possible demand for such a work. However, every important provision, and, in fact, almost the complete text of the Constitution, appears in the copious citations from it in the chapters on the Federal Departments, Cantons, Communes, and the Army.
[30] John Adams, Works, iv., p. 186.
[31] Previous to 1874 the members received only twelve francs a day.
[32] Woodrow Wilson, “The State.”
[33] Federal legislation may confer upon the Assembly the election or confirmation of other federal officials.
[34] This power was exercised in connection with the Neuchâtel revolution of 1856, the Royalist prisoners and deserters being amnestied in 1857.