| | Encyclopedia: English: The Revolutions of 1848 in the German states (Wikipedia) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) |
 | | In November, the king dissolved the new Prussian parliament and put forth a constitution of his own which was based upon the work of the assembly, yet maintaining the ultimate authority of the king. |
 | | Elaborated in the following years, the constitution came to provide for an upper house (Herrenhaus), and a lower house (Landtag), chosen by universal suffrage but under a three-class system of voting ("Dreiklassenwahlrecht"): representation was proportional to taxes paid, so that more than 80 % of the electorate controlled only one-third of the seats. |
 | | In Dresden in Saxony, the people took to the streets asking their king to engage in electoral reform and social justice. |
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