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in 1815. The "Long Diet" had been in session for over a year until 1815, when the
Congress of Vienna decided the shape which Europe would take following the Coalition's victory. The Swiss government maintained its federal structure, though no longer under the forms of the Acts of Mediation and
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Federal Diet. This was not the sole source of authority in the loosely joined country, as each canton had relatively independent diets as well. Though a representative body, it differed from modern constitutional
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in 1845. This was the beginnings of a civil war, which lasted through 1848 and saw the
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