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Chart illustrating the political system of the Constitution for the German Empire, 1849
The Frankfurt Constitution (German: Frankfurter Reichsverfassung, FRV) or Constitution of St. Paul's Church (Paulskirchenverfassung), officially named the Constitution of the German Empire (Verfassung des Deutschen Reiches) of 28 March 1849, was an unsuccessful attempt to create a unified German nation state in the successor states of the Holy Roman Empire organised in the German Confederation. Adopted and proclaimed by the Frankfurt Parliament after the Revolutions of 1848, the constitution contained a charter of fundamental rights and a democratic government in the form of a constitutional monarchy. King Frederick William IV of Prussia was designated head of state as "Emperor of the Germans" (Kaiser der Deutschen), a role he rejected.
The constitution is called by its more common names in order to distinguish it from the Constitution of the German Empire enacted in 1871 and initiated by Otto von Bismarck.
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from the Frankfurt National Assembly because the FrankfurtConstitution would have required German-speaking Austria to have a separate constitution, government...
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be selected for office and what rights they were to have. In the FrankfurtConstitution of 28 March 1849, it was envisaged that an emperor would be the...
attending the Frankfurt Parliament, which intended to create such a state. However, when Maximilian II rejected the FrankfurtConstitution in 1849, there...
The Constitution of the German Reich can refer to the following: The FrankfurtConstitution of 1849. The Constitution of the German Empire of 1871. The...
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perception of the form of the planned empire as designed by the FrankfurtConstitution, thus causing abortion of the efforts to establish the state. Nevertheless...
example, Britische Wehrmacht meaning "British Armed Forces". The FrankfurtConstitution of 1849 designated all German military forces as the "German Wehrmacht"...
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led to the election of the Frankfurt Assembly, the first all-German parliament. This parliament had enacted a Constitution of the German Empire on 28...
ensure a low voter turnout and sought the implementation of the FrankfurtConstitution. In June 1849, the organised people's assemblies all over Nassau...
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started in March 1848. The Imperial Constitution campaign had as its goal the recognition of the FrankfurtConstitution that had been put together by the...
1849: although the Frederick William IV of Prussia rejected the FrankfurtConstitution, he promptly made the German states an offer to establish a German...
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