Nationalists, liberals and socialists attempted to overthrow governments that were part of the Concert, or Congress system in Vienna. Resulting from the revolutions in an effort to advance German unification was the Frankfurt Parliament in 1848. Also known as a Pan-German parliament, this parliament drafted a constitution for a unified Germany. Its goal was to unify Germany on the basis of liberalism. The constitution drafted a constitutional monarchy that consisted of a two-house legislature; the Staatenhaus and the Volkshaus. “The Frankfurt National Assembly spent much time debating various plans for a unified Germany, but it also had to decide on immediate practical problems, such as the nature of the executive power and Germany’s territorial
