This book offers an accurate and reasonably detailed introduction to swiss constitutional law and its interrelations with public international law the book first discusses definitions and functions of a constitution in general it then examines the historical development sources and interpretation of the swiss federal constitution of 1999. This book offers an accurate and reasonably detailed introduction to swiss constitutional law and its interrelations with public international law the book first discusses definitions and functions of a constitution in general it then examines the historical development sources and interpretation of the swiss federal constitution of 1999. The federal constitution of the swiss confederation of 18 april 1999 represents the legal foundation of the state and as such contains a blue print for all state activities as well as the rights of the individual in relation to the state this book offers. Stanford libraries official online search tool for books media journals databases government documents and more