Federal Constitution of the Swiss Confederation

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Art. 47 Autonomy of the Cantons

1The Con­fed­er­a­tion shall re­spect the autonomy of the Can­tons.

2It shall leave the Can­tons suf­fi­cient tasks of their own and re­spect their or­gan­isa­tion­al autonomy. It shall leave the Can­tons with suf­fi­cient sources of fin­ance and con­trib­ute to­wards en­sur­ing that they have the fin­an­cial re­sources re­quired to ful­fil their tasks.1

1 Ad­op­ted by the pop­u­lar vote on 28 Nov. 2004, in force since 1 Jan. 2008 (FCD of 3 Oct 2003, FCD of 26 Jan. 2005, FCD of 7 Nov. 2007; AS 2007 5765; BBl 2002 2291, 2003 6591, 2005 951).

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