Foundation of the Swiss Republic.

The article presents a reproduction of the "Pact of 1291," the Latin document used during the independence of Switzerland and provides comparisons between its language and that of the documents and resolutions of Massachusetts just prior to the U.S. Revolutionary War. Translations of Latin and French phrases within the Pact are compared to similar phrases used in the Plymouth Convention of September 1774, the Essex Convention of 1774, and the Middlesex Convention of August 1774. Further parallels are drawn between the formation of the Swiss Republic and that of the United States.