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The Pre-Parliament had favoured universal suffrage, although individual states set their own qualifications. While Austria, Prussia and Schleswig-Holstein imposed no restrictions, farm hands were excluded in Baden and Saxony. Bavaria and Wutternberg excluded domestic servants and workers, and Bavaria
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The Pre-Parliament set the ratio of one deputy to the National Assembly per 50,000 inhabitants of the German Confederation, totaling 649 deputies. However, Czech-majority constituencies in Bohemia and Moravia boycotted the election, reducing the total to 585. Those elected included 157 judges and
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were excluded as they had walked out; they had favored the abolition of both hereditary monarchy and standing armies, and a Federal constitution on North American lines. The rebuffed Hecker proclaimed the German Republic in Baden on 12 April, but the so-called
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lawyers, 138 high officials, over a hundred university and high school teachers, and about 40 merchants and industrialists. Most of the 90 members of the nobility were in the learned professions, and there was only one peasant and four
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failed within a week. Hecker escaped to Switzerland and became a farmer in the United States. Later Struve also went into exile (in Switzerland and the United States) before returning to Germany.
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accompanied by the roar of cannon and the ringing of bells. It included the German political leaders of the past three decades: the political professors
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The Frankfurt Parliament convened on 18 May at Frankfurt, when the members walked in solemn procession to the
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on 1 May 1848 to elect members of a new National Assembly known as the
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German federal election, 1848
Feb 1867
Frankfurt Parliament



Heinrich von Gagern
Joseph von Radowitz
Robert Blum
Liberal
Conservative
Democratic
Hesse-Darmstadt
Westphalia
Gera
Greiz
The Prince of Leiningen
Independent
Federal elections
38 states
German Confederation
Frankfurt Parliament
Friedrich Hecker
Gustav Struve
Paulskirche
Friedrich Dahlmann
Johann Droysen
Georg Waitz
Ernst Arndt
Friedrich Jahn

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