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And if you ask any swiss person, or any visiting EU lawyer who lives there just now, HOW DO YOU DO IT?, the answer is always the same: DIRECT DEMOCRACY. The sovereignty of the people. There is a great irony in the fact that Switzerland .... and is the language that gives names to many US states, towns and cities, e.g. California, Las Vegas, Nevada, Arizona, Florida, Texas (from the Spanish Tejas), Colorado, San Francisco, San Diego, San Antonio and a very long etcetera. ...