uk.environment

I&Rgb <""info \"@ iniref.org"> wrote in
news:60p1lbF1oa7kpU1@mid.uni-berlin.de:

> soupdragon wrote:
>>> More about Swiss governance here
>>> http://www.iniref.org/swissdemocracy.html
>>>
>>
>> Nothing there about the Swiss's less than glorious record regarding
>> womens sufferage. I wonder why? Anthying to do with the
>> 'Citizens/Men- Only Initiative' in the 1959 that ensured they were
>> kept out of the democratic process by overturning the Swiss
>> Parliaments decision in 1958? As the previous poster mentioned, it
>> took a Federal Court ruling to force the change in 1991 after a
>> citizens/men-only initiative rejected it at canton level the previous
>> year.
>>
>> Citizens Initiative = Majority tyrrany. The rights of minorities must
>> be enshrined in and protected by a written constitution befor a
>> citizens initiative can be put in place.
>>
>
> This thread is about the following:

This thread contained the claim that Swiss democracy was better, and
that is what is being discussed here by most contributers.