The Swiss Confederation Institute
The mission of the Swiss Confederation Institute is to educate the American public and the world about the success story of Switzerland's unique model of direct democracy and decentralized limited confederation political system in contrast to the perceived failure of American style representative democracy to limit government growth and defend liberty. Imagine a nation where the voters not only have the right of referendum to overturn central government dictates as well as parliamentary or congressional excess but where the citizens can actually initiate and create legislation, laws, regulations and policy—all through their initiative process in Switzerland.
Our goal is help the public learn why the Swiss political model that preserves personal liberty, advocates local decentralized government services and guarantees citizen control over government should be emulated and copied in the U.S. and around the world. It is important to remember than America's first government was the Articles of Confederation. Even our neighbor to the north has been successful as a confederation as their devolution of federal power voluntarily kept Quebec in Canada.
We need your support to guarantee that in our new 21st century, the Swiss model of direct democracy and confederation will be studied, copied and adapted to local political environments to help transform the top-down, big government failures of the 20th century into legitimate, effective, limited governments restrained by direct democracy around the world. - Ronald Holland
Founding Members of The Swiss Confederation Institute:
Ronald Holland, President
Swiss Confederation Institute
PO Box 1213
Mars Hill, NC 28754
Email: skironholland@yahoo.com
www.RonaldHolland.comThomas Moore
Thomas Moore, originally from South Carolina, lives and writes in Alexandria, Virginia. The Hunt for Confederate Gold is his fourth book, and he is at work on a "prequel," There Lives the Moment.
Moore was a leader in Washington's defense and international security community and an expert consultant to the firearms industry. He served two years in the Pentagon during the Reagan Administration and five years in the U.S. Senate, including the Professional Staff of the Senate Armed Services Committee under Chairman Strom Thurmond. From 1995 to 1998 he was director of defense and foreign policy at The Heritage Foundation.
He is considered one of the Washington policy community's most original and effective voices, with opinion columns and analytical articles published on a wide variety of national security issues. In 1993 his pseudonymous novel for the Christian market, The Lambda Conspiracy, was published by Moody Press. In 2004 he wrote Class Reunion, a love story that powerfully explores the phenomenon of reconnecting with one's First Love, and is seeking publication. Before completing The Hunt for Confederate Gold he wrote a non-fiction narrative, School for Genius: the Story of Switzerland's Federal Technical Institute, on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of this world-famous Swiss university. He has begun work on There Lives the Moment, a story of the Battle of Gettysburg, but set uniquely in 1913, when 10,000 Union and Confederate survivors returned to the epic battlefield of their youth for a 50th anniversary commemorative encampment, where they confronted searing memories of triumph and loss.
Moore is a 1970 graduate of The Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina; attended the University of Grenoble, France under a French Government Scholarship, and earned a Master of Arts Degree from Georgetown University in Washington, DC.
John Remington Graham,
B.A., LL.B, of the Minnesota Bar
& a Constitutional Law Consultant
180 Haut de la Paroisse
St-Agapit, Comte de Lotbiniere
Quebec G0S 1Z0 Canada
(418) 888-5049
Email: graham@clic.netHe was an advisor on British constitutional law and history to the Amicus Curiae for Quebec before the Supreme Court of Canada in Reference on certain Questions concerning the Secession of Quebec from Canada, [1998] 2 S. C. R. 217
Read his Secessionist Tradition of New England
See John Graham's CV
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