 During the year 1917, Finnish politicians from right to left sought to have the new Russia recognize Finland as a separate state with its own constitution.The Social Democrats passed the "Power Act" in July 1917, which in effect meant real union, but the Provisional Government, after having survived a Bolshevik coup attempt the same month, dissolved the parliament.In the autumn of 1917, a committee was set up in Finland to draw up a proposal for a new constitution.