Legislative and executive council of the Swiss Confederacy
This article is about the historical Swiss legislature. For the modern legislature, see Federal Assembly (Switzerland).
Tagsatzung of 1531 in Baden (1790s drawing).Tagsatzung of 1807 at Grossmünster in Zürich
The Federal Diet of Switzerland (German: Tagsatzung, IPA:[ˈtaːkˌzatsʊŋ]; French: Diète fédérale; Italian: Dieta federale) was the legislative and executive council of the Old Swiss Confederacy and existed in various forms from the beginnings of Swiss independence until the formation of the Swiss federal state in 1848.
The Diet was a meeting of delegates from the individual cantons. It was the most wide-reaching political institution of the Old Swiss Confederacy, but its power was very limited, as the cantons were essentially sovereign.
While the composition and functions of the Federal Diet had changed and evolved since its founding in the 15th century, it was most notably reorganised during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic period. The understanding of the Federal Diet can be broken down into three main periods: before the French invasion in 1798, the period of the French invasion and the Act of Mediation, and from its restructuring by the Federal Treaty (Bundesvertrag) of 7 August 1815 to its dissolution after the Sonderbund War in 1848.
The Federal Diet of Switzerland (German: Tagsatzung, IPA: [ˈtaːkˌzatsʊŋ]; French: Diète fédérale; Italian: Dieta federale) was the legislative and executive...
conflict from the 16th to the 18th centuries; as a result, the federal diet (Tagsatzung) was often paralysed by hostility between the factions. The Swiss Confederacy...
the city of Rottweil, in a feud against the lords of Landenberg. The Tagsatzung decided that the Swiss auxiliaries sent to Rottweil should receive "a...
future constitutions were initiated in all cantons of Switzerland. The Tagsatzung (the gathering of delegates from all the nineteen cantons) which took...
solemn declaration of the Tagsatzung declared the Federal Constitution adopted on 12 September 1848. A resolution of the Tagsatzung of 14 September 1848 specified...
coat of arms (eidgenössisches Wappen) was defined by the Swiss Diet (Tagsatzung) in 1815, for the Restored Confederacy. A more elaborate federal seal...
party accused Zürich of territorial ambitions. While the Federal Diet (Tagsatzung) had successfully mediated in 1529, on this occasion the attempt failed...
governed by liberal administrations, did not join the alliance. After the Tagsatzung (Federal Diet) declared the Sonderbund unconstitutional (October 1847)...
University Library. London, New York, Macmillan and co. Würgler, A.: Tagsatzung in German, French and Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland...
the so-called peace on the Murifeld. The peasant armies retreated. The Tagsatzung, the federal council of the Old Swiss Confederacy, then sent an army from...
diet, the Tagsatzung developed in the 15th century. The second unifying treaty later became the Stanser Verkommnis in 1481. The Tagsatzung typically met...
restoring the late feudal conditions of the 17th and 18th centuries. The Tagsatzung was reorganized by the Federal Treaty (Bundesvertrag) of 7 August 1815...
had supplied the most troops. The country cantons resented this and the Tagsatzung or leadership of each of the cantons met in Stans in 1481 to resolve the...
repeatedly flooded and devastated, in 1750 the Surbtal Jews asked the Tagsatzung to establish a cemetery in the vicinity of their communities in the Surb...
in 1555. Politically, this gave the Catholic cantons a majority in the Tagsatzung, the federal diet of the confederacy. When their Protestant city alliance...
Rhaeto-Romance languages Demonym(s) Swiss Government Federal Republic Legislature Tagsatzung Historical era Napoleonic Wars • Act of Mediation 19 February 1803 • Federal...
central institution of the German Confederation from 1815 to 1848 The Tagsatzung, the legislative and executive council of the Old Swiss Confederacy This...
Hülftenschanz. August 26, 1833 – The Canton of Basel is partitioned by the Swiss Tagsatzung, to create the two half-cantons of Basel-City and Basel-Country. August...
(such as the Icelandic Commonwealth, the Swiss Landsgemeinde and later Tagsatzung, and the High Medieval communal movement linked to the rise of medieval...
were held by the cantonal chancellery of the canton that was hosting the tagsatzung. Until the establishment of the federal state in 1848, the chancellery...
Executive Council and the second deputy for Bern to the Tagsatzung. As he entered the Tagsatzung for the first time in August 1846, still known as the former...
This is a list of presidents of the Diet ("Tagsatzung") of the Swiss Confederation (before 1848). For the period since the creation of Switzerland as a...
Nidwalden was Unterwalden nit dem Kernwald. Unterwalden's votes in the Tagsatzung were split between the two valleys. Between 1798 and 1803 it became the...
repeatedly flooded and devastated, in 1750 the Surbtal Jews asked the Tagsatzung to establish the Endingen cemetery in the vicinity of their communities...
See Tagsatzung for the meaning in historical Switzerland. Vorort (plural: Vororte) is a German term that could be considered roughly equivalent to a suburb...
shields (escutcheons) as coats of arms arises in the late 15th century. The Tagsatzung in Baden was presented with stained glass representations of all cantons...
In the Stanser Verkommnis (English: Treaty of Stans) of 1481 the Tagsatzung solved the latent conflict between the rural and urban cantons of the Old Swiss...
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