MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
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the estates should vote by estates
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the clergy and the nobility contributed little to the life of the country.
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the third estate should have the right to vote.
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taxes on the poor should be reduced.
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Detailed explanation-1: -In the pamphlet, Sieyès argues that the third estate – the common people of France – constituted a complete nation within itself and had no need of the “dead weight” of the two other orders, the first and second estates of the clergy and aristocracy.
Detailed explanation-2: -In Scotland, the Three Estates were the Clergy (First Estate), Nobility (Second Estate), and Shire Commissioners, or “burghers” (Third Estate), representing the bourgeois, middle class, and lower class. The Estates made up a Scottish Parliament.
Detailed explanation-3: -Estates General The Third Estate wanted greater representation and greater political power to address issues of inequality. After weeks of dissent, no agreement was reached and the meeting of the Estates-General was disbanded.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Third Estate was made up of everyone else, from peasant farmers to the bourgeoisie – the wealthy business class. While the Second Estate was only 1% of the total population of France, the Third Estate was 96%, and had none of the rights and priviliges of the other two estates.