In 1776 Switzerland was not even called Switzerland, it was The Old Swiss Confederacy, and not even a single unified country. They didn’t abandon the sovereignty of the individual cantons until 1848 when they adopted their constitution. I wouldn’t call the canton situation a modern democracy.
I’ll give you The Six Nations.
I don’t know enough about the others to say specifically, but I suspect that much like Switzerland, they didn’t reform their governments from a fuedal state to a modern state until the mid to late 1800s much like the rest of Europe.
In 1776 Switzerland was not even called Switzerland, it was The Old Swiss Confederacy, and not even a single unified country. They didn’t abandon the sovereignty of the individual cantons until 1848 when they adopted their constitution. I wouldn’t call the canton situation a modern democracy.
I’ll give you The Six Nations.
I don’t know enough about the others to say specifically, but I suspect that much like Switzerland, they didn’t reform their governments from a fuedal state to a modern state until the mid to late 1800s much like the rest of Europe.