write short note about the frankfurt parliament in the church of st. paul
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The Frankfrut Parliament was the first freely elected parliament for all of Germany, elected on 1 May 1848. Its features were:-
- Women were only mute spectators to stand in the visitor's gallery.
- The dominant middle classes resisted the demands of the workers and artisans, hence lost their support.
- The opposition of the aristocracy and military became stronger, the social basis of parliament eroded.
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In the German regions a large number of political associations whose members were middle-class professionals, businessmen and prosperous artisans came together in the city of Frankfurt and decided to vote for an all-German National Assembly. On 18 May 1848, 831 elected representatives marched in a festive procession to take their places in the Frankfurt parliament convened in the Church of St Paul. They drafted a constitution for a German nation to be headed by a monarchy subject to a parliament. When the deputies offered the crown on these terms to Friedrich Wilhelm IV, King of Prussia, he rejected it and joined other monarchs to oppose the elected assembly