École de Winterthour
École de Winterthour ( German : "School of Winterthur") pointed particularly in the Romandie the influence of the Democrats with stronghold in Winterthur on kantonalzürcherische policy and national.
The Democratic Movement (constituted as a party from 1868) was particularly successful in Winterthur because the then liberal cantonal constitution (the so-called "System Escher "), which concentrated on the city of Zurich , allowed people to work in the countryside and in the city Winterthur felt disadvantaged. In 1869 the movement finally achieved a revision of the Zurich cantonal constitution. The democratic movement then spread to other cantons in German-speaking Switzerland , namely Thurgau , Aargau , Solothurn , Lucerne and Bern . This state-political course, which dominated the whole of German-speaking Switzerland for a while, which originated in Winterthur, thus also influenced politics in French-speaking Switzerland. In 1874, under the influence of the Democrats, the Federal Constitution from 1848 was completely revised and thus the right of referendum was introduced.
See also
Web links
- Christian Koller : 150 years ago: The democratic movement plows the canton of Zurich , in: Sozialarchiv Info 6 (2018).
- Ecole de Winterthour in the Winterthur Glossary.
Individual evidence
- ^ History. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved July 20, 2017 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )
- ↑ Joseph Jung: Rise and fall of the pamphleteer Friedrich Locher. How liberal rule fell in Zurich . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . April 17, 2015 ( nzz.ch [accessed July 20, 2017]).