Contested memories of the Revolution: the remembrance of revolutionary suffrage laws (1848-49) as political arguments in German discussions on Constitutional Reform, 1860-1875

• Autores: Christian Müller
• Localización: Erinnern und Vergessen / coord. por Oliver M. Brupbacher, Nadine Grotkamp, Jana Osterkamp, Tilmann Röder, Stefan Ruppert, David Sörgel, 2007, ISBN 978-3-89975-595-4, págs. 292-311
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • "We want our right, nothing but our right, but our whole right, complete and undisputed!" This argument was put forward by a deputation from Plauen in Saxony to petition at the Saxon lower chamber of deputies for the reintroduction of the legally instituted suffrage law of 1848. It was illegally abandoned by state government in 1850 and became source of a constant discussion in the Saxon public after 1860. In the light of events like this, the article raises the questions how and for which purposes the memories of the legally instituted suffrage laws were used in the discussions and claims for political reform during the formation of a German nation state, which party formations used the imagined and commemorated legal traditions of 1848, and how these commemorations in political thought and action were forgotten during the 1870s.