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In the institutions of Uri and Appenzell, and in others of the Swiss Cantons which have never departed from the primæval model, we may see the institutions of our own forefathers, the institutions which were once common to the whole Teutonic race, institutions whose outward form has necessarily passed away from greater states, but which contain the germs out of which every free constitution in the world has grown.
In the assemblies of those small Cantons it is only the most democratic side of the old Teutonic constitution which comes prominently into sight.
And a Swiss of the democratic Cantons would see in it, not merely the germs of his constitution, but the living picture of the thing itself.
Nowhere has this been more strikingly shown than in those democratic27 Cantons of Switzerland of which I have already spoken.
(1) What I say of Uri and the other democratic Cantons must not be misunderstood, as if I all accepted th ... ded dreams which made out the Waldstädte or Forest Cantons to have had some special origin, and some special independence, apart from the rest of Germany.
The researches of modern scholars have shown, not only that the Forest Cantons were members of the Empire like their neighbours, but that various lesser lords, spiritual and temporal, held different rights within them.
) All this is in no way peculiar to the Forest Cantons; it is no more than what we find everywhere; what is peculiar is that, whereas elsewhere the old local communities gradually died out, in the Forest Cantons they lived and flourished, and gained new rights and powers till they grew into absolutely independent commonwealths.
(7) Under the so-called Helvetic Republic of 1798, the Cantons ceased to be sovereign States, and became mere divisions, like counties or departments.
(8) Appenzell, though its history had long been connected with that of the Confederates, was not actually admitted as a Canton till December 1513, being the youngest of the thirteen Cantons which formed the Confederation down to 1798.
The Cantons were simply members of the Empire which gradually won a greater independence than their fellows.
A most interesting account of the experiment of the Swiss Cantons on freedom of labor and the guild system will be found in the U.
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