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Swiss Style Direct Democracy & Confederation Promote Liberty - Ronald reviews Swiss Direct Democracy by  Gregory A. Fossedal'.

World War II Revisionists Turn on Switzerland - Eric Margolis explains the real Swiss position during the Second World War.

Bogus Rights - The real tragedy for our nation is that any politician who holds the values of liberty that our founders held would be soundly defeated in today's political arena.

If You've Ever Loved England...... - John Graham writes about the draft constitution of the European Union back in 2003

A Better Way To Vote - Why letting the people themselves take the decisions is the logical next step for the West by Brian Needham, associate editor of The Economist and its foreign editor from 1964 to 1989. 

A European Role Model For Canada - By Colby Cosh, he writes in the Western Standard about a multilingual federation of autonomous provinces that don’t entirely trust each other. It’s called Switzerland—and it works.

My "DixieStyle" Rip Van Winkle Dream - Ronald Holland wakes up 30 years later and talks with his daughter who has lived through the transition from centralized federal state to "Swiss style" confederation and direct democracy.

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