 Its members were overwhelmingly drawn from the intelligentsia of Prussia and the rest of Northern Germany, and the group's political positions were closer to those of the right wing in the Prussian assembly than to the center-right there, whose positions corresponded to those of center-left factions at Frankfurt.With approximately 130 members, it was the largest faction.Members of the group and their publications had played major roles in preparing for and organizing the meeting of the parliament, for example in publicity in the "Deutsche Zeitung", a liberal newspaper that came to be the organ of the faction, and participation in the Heppenheim Meeting, the Heidelberg Assembly, and the "Vorparlament", the preliminary assembly that met in the Paulskirche from March 31 to April 3, 1848.