After attending this meeting, a lawyer named Lorenzo Bretano joined with a Polish general named Ludwik Mieroslawksi to create a short-lived provisional republic, before fleeing to America where he became a Congressman from Illinois.
After attending this meeting, a lawyer named Lorenzo Bretano joined with a Polish general named Ludwik Mieroslawksi to create a short-lived provisional republic, before fleeing to America where he became a Congressman from Illinois. Controversy struck this meeting when one of its members, Robert Blum, was arrested and executed at the request of the Austrian government despite technically having immunity. Anton von Schmerling resigned as Minister-President of this meeting after delegates decided to exclude Slavs and Hungarians. Delegates at this meeting proposed giving a delaying veto to both the head of state and head of government, and agreed on a set of basic rights that included the abolition of class privileges and capital punishment. This meeting's endorsement of constitutional monarchy led one proponent of divine right to reject its offer of an imperial crown, dooming it. For 10 points, name this failed attempt to create a unified Germany, an 1848 assembly at the namesake city on the Main river.
After attending this meeting, a lawyer named Lorenzo Bretano joined with a Polish general named Ludwik Mieroslawksi to create a short-lived provisional republic, before fleeing to America where he became a Congressman from Illinois.
Frankfurt Parliament [or Frankfurt Assembly; or Frankfurter Nationalversammlung]