onal
amendment see p. 431.]

[Footnote 592: W. Oechsli, in Cambridge Modern
History, XI., 234. A brief survey of the
constitutional history of Switzerland from 1848 to
1874 is contained in Chap. 8 of the volume
mentioned (bibliography, pp. 914-918). Two
excellent works are C. Hilty, Les constitutions
federales de la confederation suisse; expose
historique (Neuchatel, 1891), and T. Curti,
Geschichte der Schweiz im XIX. Jahrhundert
(Neuchatel, 1902). A fairly satisfactory book is L.
Hug and R. Stead, Switzerland (New York, 1889). The
text of the constitution may be found in S. Kaiser
and J. Strickler, Geschichte und Texte der
Bundesverfassungen der schweizerischen
Eidgenossenschaft von der helvetischen
Staatsumwaelzung bis zur Gegenwart (Bern, 1901), and
in Lowell, Governments and Parties, II., 405-431.
English versions are printed in Dodd, Modern
Constitutions, II., 257-290; McCrackan, Rise of the
Swiss Republic, 373-403; Vincent, Government in
Switzerland, 289-332; and Old South Leaflets,
General Series, No. 18. The texts of all federal
constitutions after 1798 are included in the work
of Kaiser and Strickler. A good collection of
recent documents is P. Wolf, Die schweizerische
Bundesgesetzgebung (2d ed., Basel, 1905-1908). The
principal treatises on the Swiss constitutional
system are J. J. Blumer, Handbuch des
schweizerischen Bundesstaatsrechtes (2d ed.,
Schaffhausen, 1877-1887); J. Schollenberger,
Bundesverfassung der schweizerischen
Eidgenossenschaft (Berlin, 1905); ibid., Das
Bundesstaatsrecht der Schweiz Geschichte und System
(Berlin, 1902); and W. Burckhardt, Kommentar der
Schweiz; Bundesverfassung vom 29 Mai 1874 (Bern,
1905). Two excellent briefer treatises are N. Droz,
Instruction civique (Lausanne,