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If my reading of 1999 constitution is correct, the canton(s) involved must approve and a majority of Swiss voters and a majority of the cantons. It does not ha
by stretchwithme 8y ago
If my reading of 1999 constitution is correct, the canton(s) involved must approve and a majority of Swiss voters and a majority of the cantons. It does not have to be approved by the Federal Assembly.
"Any change in the number of Cantons requires the consent of the citizens and the Cantons concerned together with the consent of the People and the Cantons."
https://www.admin.ch/opc/en/classified-compilation/19995395/index.html https://www.admin.ch/opc/en/classified-compilation/19995395/...
Not sure that is any easier than getting Congress to approve such a change. But such changes have happened in Switzerland and the only one that's happened in the US was due to most of Virginia seceding at the start of the Civil War. Of course, Switzerland is much older.
- microtherion 8y agoBut such changes have happened in Switzerland Exactly ONE new canton got created by a referendum process. It took 30 years to get to a referendum, accompanied by everything from acts of terror to threats of foreign intervention. And today, 40 years later, we're still trying to sort out the exact boundaries. Surely, it was pretty successful by international separatist standards, but it still was a hard slog. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurassic_separatism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurassic_separatism
- stretchwithme 8y agoNot easy at all, but still beats most civil wars. Thanks for pointing this out. Is this where Jurassic Park happened :-)
- shafyy 8y agoYeah exactly that's my point. The parent made it sound like it happens every other year.