The Long Game — Switzerland: The Impossible Example. Thursday’s Edition
Why Some Governments Endure. Series 20 #4
On August 1, 1291, representatives from three mountain communities, Uri, Schwyz, and Unterwalden, signed a charter in the Rütli meadow above Lake Lucerne. It was a mutual defense agreement between three small territories that shared a mountain pass and a common problem: the Habsburg dynasty wanted them. The three communities decided they would resist to…
