Bullettin n. 1/2011
June 2011
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
  • JUAN LUIS REQUEJO PAGÉS
    La reforma de las Constituciones cantonales suizas.
    in Revista de Estudios Políticos , n. 151 ,  2011 ,  363-371
    The procedures for reforming the Constitutions of the cantons are set within a unique constitutional model. This reduces the State to the minimum necessary for the citizens to have direct participation in forming the general will. The Swiss federal system assumes (rather than constrains) the sovereignty of the cantons, ensuring that their normative will can be efficacious outside their own territory. This accords the cantons a degree of autonomy to reform their own Constitution that, in conjunction with the institutions for direct democracy, enables their citizens to exercise continuous power to shape the Constitution.
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