With many revolts like revolts of the poor, unemployed workers and starving Peasants during 1848 in Europe, educated middle class of France also started a revolution for the abdication of the monarch and a republic based on universal male suffrage had been proclaimed. In other parts of Europe, men and of the ** middle classes combined their demands for constitutionalism with national unification. They took advantage o{ the growing popular unrest to push their demands for the creation of a nation-state on parliamentary principles - a constitution, freedom of press and freedom of association. The issue of extending political rights to was most controversial subject matter within the ** movement in which large number of ***** had participated actively.
