Seventh Concordat
The Siebner Concordat was a security policy agreement between the “regenerated” , liberal cantons of Zurich , Bern , Lucerne , Solothurn , St. Gallen , Aargau and Thurgau , which was concluded on March 17, 1832 without prior notice and against the resistance of the conservative cantons.
Historical context
The July Revolution of Paris in 1830 gave the liberal forces in Switzerland a boost after their defeat by the Restoration . In ten cantons, the aristocrats were overthrown by petitions and popular assemblies in the following years , and new constitutions were put into force that reintroduced popular elections for cantonal governments and civil rights. This regeneration was not lasting everywhere. In the cantons of Valais , Neuchâtel and Schwyz , the liberal forces were brutally suppressed; in Basel , the conflicts between liberals and conservatives led to a civil war that did not end until the canton was divided in 1833.
Against the background of this threat, the remaining "regenerated" cantons came together to form the Seventh Concordat. In response, the conservative cantons signed the Sarnerbund .
content
The Seventh Concordat was a typically military alliance, similar to today's North Atlantic Treaty . It obliged the then sovereign Concordat cantons to provide mutual assistance in the event of an overthrow from outside. The original text of the Concordat can be found in Kölz (1992).
See also
Footnotes and Sources
- ↑ See website of the project on the constitutional history of the University of Bern
- ^ Max Jufer: The Siebner Concordat from 1832. Diss. Bern, Affoltern a. A. 1953
- ↑ Volker Reinhardt: History of Switzerland. CH Beck, Munich 2006, pp. 96-98
- ^ Dieter Fahrni: Swiss history. A historical outline from the beginning to the present. 2nd Edition. Pro Helvetia, Zurich 2002, p. 62
- ^ Alfred Kölz, 1992. Source book on the new Swiss constitutional history , Volume 1, Bern, p. 343 f.