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The enlargement of Switzerland by way of the admission of new cantons to the Swiss Confederation ended in 1815, and the territory of Switzerland was fixed (with the exception of minor border corrections) by 1863. After the end of the First World War, there was a campaign in Vorarlberg to join Switzerland. In a 1919 referendum, 81% of the people of Vorarlberg voted to join Switzerland, but the campaign failed both because Switzerland was reluctant to support it and because it was opposed by Allies, and Vorarlberg was instead incorporated into the First Austrian Republic. There was a brief and unsuccessful revival of Alemannic separatism after World War II, and in the later half of the 20th century, there were no serious political scenarios of any further enlargement of Switzerland. Since 2008, such proposals have become frequent as expressions of Euroscepticism, reflecting the wish of territories within European Union member states to leave the European Union in view of the ongoing European debt crisis. Since there is currently no legal framework governing the admission of new cantons, any enlargement would, as a matter of Swiss law, require an amendment of the Swiss federal constitution and therefore a national popular referendum. A corresponding proposal was submitted by Jurassian representative Dominique Baettig in 2010, but was dropped after Baettig was not reelected in 2011. ==Old Swiss Confederacy== :''For a list of Swiss cantons by year of accession, see Cantons of Switzerland.'' Switzerland, a multilingual federation of 26 cantons whose origins lie in a defensive alliance of alpine valleys around the end of the 13th century, has historically grown through the accession of new states and territories during the 14th to 16th centuries. The accession of Appenzell in 1513 completed the growth of the Confederacy into the Thirteen Cantons of the early modern period. The Valais became an "eternal associate" of the Confederacy in 1529. In 1536, the Vaud was annexed from Savoy by Berne. Geneva had sought alliances with the Swiss Confederacy (in order to defend against Savoy) since the early 16th century. The conclusion of an eternal treaty with the protestant cantons Berne and Zurich in 1584 tied Geneva closely to Switzerland, but the Catholic cantons, which had been allied with the dukes of Savoy since 1560, opposed the full accession of Geneva as a member of the Confederacy. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Enlargement of Switzerland」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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