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The Frankfurt Constitution: Germany's 1849 Failed Republic
In 1848, a parliament of professors, lawyers, and poets gathered in Frankfurt's Paulskirche to write a constitution for a united, liberal Germany. They debated for months — on citizenship, on borders, on whether to include Austria or not — while kings and princes watched warily. By March 1849, they had produced one of the most progressive documents of the century: universal male suffrage, fundamental rights, a parliamentary monarchy. But they had no army, no taxes, no power to enforce it. When King Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia rejected their offer of the imperial crown, the dream…
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