For one thing, as a direct democracy, with a confederal constitution, Switzerland prides itself on its tradition of rule by the people.

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First, by ignoring the year-long effort made by the democratic and free-market oriented republics to secure communist Serbia's agreement to negotiate a new, confederal (or other) arrangement, the United States and the nations of Europe have wrongly sought to transform the victims of a crime into its perpetrators.

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