HISTORY
ABSOLUTISM AND REVOLUTION
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Question
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The second Estate paid the highest taxes
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The 1st Estate has the most people
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ALL members of the 3rd Estate were peasants
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The Estates were unequal in power
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Detailed explanation-1: -The representation was not proportional to the population of each estate. The third estate represented over 98 per cent of the population, but the other two estates could outvote them because of the disproportional representation.
Detailed explanation-2: -French society comprised three Estates, the aristocracy, the clergy and the bourgeoisie and working classes, over which the King had absolute sovereignty.
Detailed explanation-3: -French society was divided into three classes known as Estates with the First Estate being the clergy, the Second Estate being the nobility and the Third Estate, which included the rest of the society consisting of peasants and the middle class merchants and professionals.
Detailed explanation-4: -While the peasants made up the vast majority of the people in French society, over 96%, they lacked any political or economic power. In contrast, the clergy and the nobility controlled the majority of the land in France and held all of the important positions in the government, military and church.