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Frankfurt National Assembly

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Frankfurt National Assembly

 officially German National Assembly

(1848–49) German national parliament that tried and failed to create a united German state during the liberal Revolutions of 1848. Meeting in Frankfurt am Main, it proposed a constitution that provided for universal suffrage and a parliamentary government, with a hereditary emperor. The assembly offered the crown to Frederick William IV of Prussia, but he was too conservative to receive a German imperial crown from any hands but those of the other German princes, and he refused. Lacking support from either Prussia or Austria, the assembly was forced to disband.


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