Bundestag
The Bundstag Romansh Dieta da las lias was (meeting of frets) from the mid-15th century until 1798, the supreme authority of the State of the Three Leagues in Switzerland. The term "Bundestag" only appears at the beginning of the 16th century. Bundestag meetings were held jointly by the individual leagues and the three leagues and took place once or twice a year; depending on which business was pending. The meetings for the appointment of offices took place every two years.
The sequence of the conference locations of the General Bundestag had already been established before the Federal Treaty of 1524: Ilanz - Chur -Ilanz-Chur- Davos alternated in rotation . In the period between the General Bundestag, the leaders of the Drei Bünde met, alone or with three to five messengers per Bund, to discuss current business, for so-called "Contributions" and congresses, in Romansh "Congress Pitschen" and "Congress Grund"
Each judicial community sent, depending on its size, one to two messengers with instructions in Romansh "Mess"; the General Bundestag comprised 63 messengers from 48 judicial communities and the three heads of the leagues, "Chaus-lia" in Romansh. The gray covenant was represented by 27 messengers, the church society with 22 messengers and the ten-court society with 14 messengers. He wrote out to the judicial communities all business related to foreign policy as well as those not covered by instructions. The resolutions of the Bundestag were recorded in writing and brought back to their communities by the messengers. The Bundestag demanded a written answer from the municipalities on particularly important issues. The congregation then met again and sifted through the responses it received. The final version was then drawn up, which reflected the will of the majority of the municipalities (the so-called «Mehren»). Up until the end of the 16th century, the Bundestag and Contribution took some final votes without sending them back to the municipalities for appraisal.
The topics of the Bundestag were to a small extent external relations of the leagues and constitutional changes. In addition, there were numerous appeals from municipalities and private individuals against civil court decisions.
The General Bundestag was also the complaint authority for the subject areas of the Valtellina and the Maienfeld rulership and supervised their administration. Until 1603, the Bundestag took care of the election of the officials who administered the subject areas, then this task was transferred to the individual leagues and finally to the municipalities. Religious questions were dealt with separately according to denomination. The General Bundestag was abolished in 1798 by the Helvetic Republic. The successor institution in 1803 was the Grand Council of the Canton of Graubünden, which was also composed of 66 representatives from the judicial communities .
Web links
- Silvio Margadant: Bundestag. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
literature
- Handbook of Graubünden history. Volume 2: Early Modern Times. Publishing house Bündner Monatsblatt, Chur 2005.
- Adolf Collenberg: Istorgia Grischuna. Lia Rumantscha, Chur 2003.