Abstract
In the past years, the most important impetus for the renewed interest in the relationship between federal states and international law has come primarily from Canada. In Switzerland, the extent and significance of the external relations of the cantons is not a burning political problem. It seems, however, worthwhile to sketch the empirical state of these cantonal affairs, because there is, in this field, a constant feedback from comparative to international law, which makes a precise knowledge of the municipal law of the main federal states imperative. Questions concerning the treaty-making capacity and responsibility of member units in federal states should not be answered on the basis of dogmatic and a priori assertions, but rather on the basis of exact comparative studies.
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