The parliament elected Archduke John of Austria as its provisional head of state with the title 'Imperial Regent'.

In summer 1851, the reinstalled Bundestag of the German Confederation declared the imperial legislation to be void.

[4] The French Second Republic and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland installed official envoys to keep contact with the Central Government.

The first constitutional order of the German Empire was the Imperial Law concerning the introduction of a provisional Central Power for Germany, on 28 June 1848.

Contemporaries and scholars had different opinions about the statehood of the German Empire of 1848/1849: In reality the distinction was less clear.

This treaty organization for the defense of the German territories lacked, in the view of the national movement, a government and a parliament.

But it was generally acknowledged by German and foreign powers – to establish a national state, it was the easiest to present it as the continuation of the Confederation.

According to historian Ernst Rudolf Huber, it was possible to determine a continuity or even legal identity of Confederation and the new Federal State.

[7] Ulrich Huber notes that none of the German states declared the Imperial Regent John and his government to be usurpatory or illegal.

Maybe the most notable law declared the highly acclaimed Basic Rights of the German People, 27 December 1848.