The parliament on the one hand, and the governments on the other, agreed on a constitution for the North German Confederation on 1 July 1867.
Initially, the treaty bound the parties into a military alliance and an agreement to negotiate the creation of a formal federation.
The full name of the treaty, translated to English, is Treaty of Alliance between Anhalt, Bremen, Brunswick, Hamburg, Lippe, Lübeck, Oldenburg, Prussia, Reuss-Schleitz, Saxe-Altenburg, Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, the Grand Duchy of Saxony, Schaumberg-Lippe, Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, Schwarzburg-Sondershausen, and Waldeck and Pyrmont, signed at Berlin on 18 August 1866.
[2] Bismarck drafted the constitution, which was changed by the allied governments and by the Reichstag, the North German parliament.
The following states signed the treaty on 18 August and submitted ratifications on 8 September 1866: The following states submitted ratifications or accessions to the agreement at dates later in 1866: The Duchy of Lauenburg was not formally a member of the treaty, but it was implicated in the agreement because its duke was, from 1865, the Prussian king.