The Federal Assembly of the Swiss Confederation – supreme authority or classical parliament?

Abstract

The purpose of the following article is to analyze both legally and doctrinally the systemic position of the Federal Assembly. The current research achievements has not developed a consensus among researchers and scholars on the principle of power organization implemented there, thus leading to a dispute in the doctrine. Currently, the doctrine advocates two views of the political apparatus of the Helvetian state – the position on the realization of the supremacy of parliament, unprecedented in democratic states, in opposition to the view that there is a separation of powers of power, albeit implemented in a specific way. The analyzed literature, together with the legal achievements of this state, indicate the validity of the second view.