The consequences of the failure of the 1848 revolutions successes of Bismarck and Cavour.
As a result of inability of parliament to succeed in the 1848 revolutions leading to the introduction of a constitution, there was an establishment of a ‘Provincial Central Power’. This was a power that was supposed to be led by Empire Vicor or an Imperator Regent who was a government appointee governing through ministers. In spite of the established powers that were in most cases violent efforts, disruptive notions were gaining popularity. There were disconnections of large nobility swathes with the royal absolutism or even the near absolutism. At the time that the parliament took an active role in the lengthy discussion of a variety of union schemes, there were other frantic efforts of diverting it from the initially intended purpose as a result of the Denmark war over the question of Schleswig-Holstein (Chambers, 2010).
Nineteenth-Century Culture.
Nineteenth century was associated with many changes that took place across Europe majority of these changes were focused on the individual, an aspect that had a great importance to the European society. Many other changes however focused on the responsibilities of the individual in as far as the nation was concerned. This was a time that was characterized by the demonstration of people’s rights for self government through the use of political systems like the liberalism in addition to the demonstration of loyalty to their nation with the use of movements like the nationalism as well as imperialism. This led to the surfacing of the liberals who promoted a government with some limitations with a desire of protecting individual rights.
Liberalism therefore became an autonomous system of politics with the implication that the people had a strong believe of having powers as well as rights for self government. Equality in the face of the law was favored by the liberals for the entire citizens, the religious toleration as well as freedom of press. This time demanded that the duties as well as the rights of individuals were recognized by the government in place of the focus of the government on issues of gaining money as well as power (Chambers, 2010).
Changes that took place in European high culture in the nineteenth century.
New cultural forms emerged during this period with the focus of the European being focused on rights as well as duties of the people as a result of the realization of the crucial role played by an individual in the society. The loyalty of the people played a vital role in the prosperity of Europe. All the countries in Europe came up with a strong nationality sense and therefore the nation was in a position of expanding their rule to the less fortunate countries. The autonomy as well as the responsibility that was developed in Europe was the cause of the advancement of the nation (Chambers, 2010).
Frankfurt Constitution utilized German nationalism to assert its agenda through the adoption of the constitution for the Germany. The constitution that was proposed required a parliamentary form of government having hereditary emperor. It was a requirement for the Germany principalities to make use of similar currency as well as customs system. At the time of the adoption of the constitution Germany was under the division of principalities (Chambers, 2010).
Constitution as a precursor to German unification.
There was initially no unification in Germany as it was amalgamated of individual principalities in addition to lands such as Austria and Prussia that were German-speaking. There was a formation of national assembly with the responsibilities of writing the constitution in addition to ending uprising in most of the principalities. The writing of the constitution never brought unification at first for it had been put on hold. The imperial crown of Germany was rejected leading to the rejection of the constitution leading to the failure of the Frankfurt Parliament (Chambers, 2010).
The articles and sub-sections that were most threatening to the status quo were the ones that related to the rights of the individual and the responsibility of the individual. This was because of the importance that was place on them as the success factors of the government.