 The treaty clearly established the league as a separate political entity that considered itself equal to and independent from the cities.The tax revolt had become an independence movement, based ideologically on the traditional Swiss founding legends, especially on the legend of William Tell.Legally, the peasants justified their assemblies and their union by the rights of old and in particular the "Stanser Verkommnis" of 1481, one of the important coalition treaties of the Old Swiss Confederacy.