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The capital of the canton Basel-Stadt is the city of Basel. The present constitution of the canton dates from 1889. In 1966 Basel-Stadt became the first German-speaking canton to allow women to vote, five years before the right to vote was extended to all Swiss women in 1971. [12] The parliament of the canton is the Grand Council, which has 100 ...
The Swiss Constitution of 1844 continued to recognize "Basel" as one of twenty-two "sovereign cantons" of Switzerland, enumerated as Basel (Stadt und Land). In this sense, as a sovereign member of the Swiss Confederacy, the canton of Basel continued to exist until 1999, when the revised constitution recognised the two former half-cantons as ...
This is a list of members of both houses of the Federal Assembly from the Canton of Basel-Stadt. As one of the cantons defined until 1999 as "half-cantons", Basel-Stadt elects only one member to the Council of States
The historical canton of Basel was divided in 1833 after the Basel countryside (which became the canton of Basel-Landschaft) declared its independence from the city of Basel (which became the canton of Basel-Stadt), following a period of protest and armed conflict about the under-representation of the more populous countryside in the canton's ...
This is a list of presidents of the Executive Council of the canton of Basel-Stadt. The canton of Basel-Stadt and city of Basel are government by a seven-member executive council (Regierungsrat). The executive council is chaired by its president (Regierungspräsident). [1] The function used to rotate annually among the members, but has become a ...
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The Grand Council of Basel-Stadt (German: Grosser Rat) is the legislature of the canton of Basel-Stadt, in Switzerland. Basel-Stadt has a unicameral legislature. The Grand Council has 100 seats, with members elected every four years. Members of the canton's executive, the Executive Council, are elected on the same day.
This list contains all cultural property of national significance (class A) in the canton of Basel-Stadt from the 2009 Swiss Inventory of Cultural Property of National and Regional Significance. It is sorted by municipality and contains 70 individual buildings, 32 collections and 3 archaeological finds.