 During his administration he tried to make a closely united republic out of the loosely connected cantons, and to improving the Swiss roads and waterways.Appointed a delegate, at this time, to the diet at Lucerne he endeavoured at the diet to bring about a reorganization of the confederation.He wished to create a vigorous, organically united republic similar to that of the United States, retaining at the same time a large amount of independence for the individual cantons.