Federal Constitution, art. 149 para. 2 (SR 101, transl., status 2016-01)
USG: legal and political term commonly used in the context of Swiss democracy, not to be confused with the "population" or "public", and always used with the definite article in this context, i. e. the People
after Auer/Malinverni/Hottelier, Droit constitutionnel suisse, Bd. 1, 2000, p. 21 ss and Thürer/Aubert/Müller, Verfassungsrecht der Schweiz, 2001, S. 350