| In addition, the cantons and over 3,000 communes have preserved their autonomy and decide numerous issues by popular vote. |
| These original communities were called cantons, and today Switzerland's twenty-six provinces are called by the same name. |
| The cantons have also changed theirs constitutions to be in conformity with the confederalism system. |
| Alongside the BiH state elections, there were also elections to the parliaments at entity level and in the Croat-Muslim Federation's cantons. |
| It emphasizes democracy, decentralization, and the sovereignty of individual cantons, which give much autonomy to individual communities. |
| What the proposals amounted to was a plan to trisect the West Bank into three cantons by annexing blocs of settlements. |
