Question

When the Frankfurt Assembly offered Frederick William IV of Prussia the throne of a united German state in 1848, the ruler refused because the governments of the states had not agreed to the offer. the real power would remain with the individual states. the offer came from “the people.” not all the German states were included.?

Answer 1

The correct answer is "the offer came from the "people"".

He believed that the parliament does not have the jurisdiction in this case and that it can't proclaim him to be the emperor of all German people without the actual people since he believed that they didn't represent them properly and didn't care about them.