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Show Tim Helen nilllill. It la a serious (tuistlou whcther tho nfiriudnmsliotill not litriultti'd lu nil louutrie tnju)lng ir.uulua.1 auf (ri;o. Tlioioii-iirvatlvo Wader in 11 l-Riuiii l-Riuiii made tho rifinndjui prlvlhgo ono of the louditluna on whlih thiy ngrecd to tho cxtinslou of suffrage mining tho jiooplo. rlnitzerland has prohuUy tialiy Iho wlawt und best s)steuiutlzr-l goveru-uiint goveru-uiint lu the worth Not only haa alio mo oil on pnaipirouhly na a frco goviru-Inelit goviru-Inelit since Ul ., making lur thoaliie.tor of all tnudirn lepttbllo and cutifcdera-tloua. cutifcdera-tloua. but sho his given us aourra of moat lii.tln-ulhcd lenchira, sihohra and Inventors, who haio spread light into nil rcgiuii of the earth. Tho rift r-iiidiliu, r-iiidiliu, llienfore, whlih tho Hwla goi eriiintut udoptel aftir prolonged con-alderatloii con-alderatloii and study is worthy tho iitttntlon of oil countries tnjo)lug tho right of sullruge llriilly, tho n ferendnm la a method of allow ..ig tho wholo oplo to dclirniluo whither nil luipnrlatit ineasuro shall be-tomolaw. be-tomolaw. Aftirthofeilirnl Iigi.lalors havo decided on a law and pasecd tlio till, this dnc-i not dually decido it. If pritato citizen object to tho law, they latition thogoieritmcnt to havo Ita pja-aigorefirnilto pja-aigorefirnilto Iho wholv lioily of lot er In bwitzerlitid. If Iho number of lutttioiitranieitatho Ugalreipilii merit, thin tho govtrnuiiiit huno ihoicohut to lit tho voter nf tlio country lit laigo dc.ldo uhetlureihiy will havo tho law. On u urtalu day npinintcd they meet und last tlidr h.illot for or against the nieiuniro, and tho majority decblon of tho wholo people l linal. Thus lu Ibis way Iho lrgHlatnru cun never onrrido tho will ot Iho people. A umeily la at hand which inn K applhil within a fviv da) at any time Tho lcfereiidum la not rettortcd to, however, unle souio uieaanroof unuaual iuisrUnco come up for decision.-"' |