Frankfurt Documents

• There should be a constitutional convention before September 1, 1948, to draft a constitution shaping a federal form of government, while maintaining the rights of people and the participating states.
• This constitution should first be approved by the military governments, followed by a referendum in the states to ratify the Constitution.
• The respective simple majority in two thirds of eleven West German states should be sufficient for ratification.
• Constitutional amendments must be approved by the military governors.
• German foreign policy should continue to be controlled by the military governors in a minimum, as Ruhr questions, repairs, industrial and rights of the Allied forces.
• The boundaries of each state should be reviewed and should, if necessary, take into account traditional forms if new states were created. No state should be allowed to be too large and dominate the others.