Prussian Constitutional Monarchy in 1848?

Hello everyone, I’ve been a lurker on the board for several months, and I have had an idea for a timeline bouncing around in my head for a while now. What if Prussia became a constitutional monarchy in 1848? After all Fredrick William IV verbally agreed to protestors demands of a constitutional convention to begin with. It wasn’t until after someone took a potshot at him that he called in the army to stamp out the uprising in Berlin. So what if the uprising stayed peaceful? No potshot, no barricades, no soldiers. Could some sort of moderate constitution be created where the King retained some powers (veto, ability to appoint ministers with the assemblies approval, maybe even the ability to declare war?) while the legislature gets to pass tax laws and preside over other domestic issues? Granted Austria and Russia would not be happy with a democratic Prussia, but historically Austria had its hands full already, maybe throw in a cossack/serf revolt in Russia so Nicholas will already have his hands full, and be unable to help the Austrians with their Hungarian problem and threaten Prussia’s ambition to unify the German states. This could lead to an independent Hungary (if Russia is putting down revolts of its own they won’t be able to help the Austrians) and a Prussian dominated German Confederation due to a weaker Austria (if Hungary and possibly other regions successfully break off from the Austrian Empire). Maybe even a less centralized German Empire due to an alternate unification through the German Confederation instead of a series of wars of unification and a strong federal state?

Is this at all plausible? European history isn’t really my specialty, and I haven’t studied the German states in the 19th century (except for some brief wiki research for this idea) since AP European History in high school a few years back. Comments and suggestions are more than welcome!
 
Event if he did accept the crown i am not sure he would be able to stay in power because it is possible that the junkers/bismark would launch some sort of coup de etat and overthrow frederick to prevent any sort of constitution from being "forced" upor prussia

Now if the revolution of 1848 was more effective in prussia and the people force frederick to abdicate or overthrow him and put in place a liberal monarch (not sure who that would be) only then would yoy have a chance of a united germany in 1848.

this is highly improbale because prussia was a police state, and any sort of pro constitution demostraters would be arrested/killed by the police/army
 
Hello everyone, I’ve been a lurker on the board for several months, and I have had an idea for a timeline bouncing around in my head for a while now. What if Prussia became a constitutional monarchy in 1848? After all Fredrick William IV verbally agreed to protestors demands of a constitutional convention to begin with. It wasn’t until after someone took a potshot at him that he called in the army to stamp out the uprising in Berlin. So what if the uprising stayed peaceful? No potshot, no barricades, no soldiers. Could some sort of moderate constitution be created where the King retained some powers (veto, ability to appoint ministers with the assemblies approval, maybe even the ability to declare war?) while the legislature gets to pass tax laws and preside over other domestic issues? Granted Austria and Russia would not be happy with a democratic Prussia, but historically Austria had its hands full already, maybe throw in a cossack/serf revolt in Russia so Nicholas will already have his hands full, and be unable to help the Austrians with their Hungarian problem and threaten Prussia’s ambition to unify the German states. This could lead to an independent Hungary (if Russia is putting down revolts of its own they won’t be able to help the Austrians) and a Prussian dominated German Confederation due to a weaker Austria (if Hungary and possibly other regions successfully break off from the Austrian Empire). Maybe even a less centralized German Empire due to an alternate unification through the German Confederation instead of a series of wars of unification and a strong federal state?

Is this at all plausible? European history isn’t really my specialty, and I haven’t studied the German states in the 19th century (except for some brief wiki research for this idea) since AP European History in high school a few years back. Comments and suggestions are more than welcome!

Welcome Fish!
This is very plausable. For one example of how it could unfold, feel free to take a look at my Course of Human Events timeline (link below), where I just finished doing this very thing. There have been 3 or 4 other excellent 1848 German (re)Unification threads posted recently in this forum as well.
 
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