 When it came to his person, he could give in; but when it came to, by his way of seeing things, a point of principle being in play, he remained inexorable in the position he took.Thus in the diet of 1837 he resisted with much determination the government's suggestion of division of the electorate into classes after a census, since this contradicted what he saw as a just principle of the absolute equality of all citizens.On the grounds of principle, he also opposed a treaty for incorporating Baden into the German customs union () since he saw in the closer relationship to Prussia which would thereby result the danger of a plan to undermine the constitutional life of the state.