FRENCH REVOLUTION
FRANCE UNDER NAPOLEON
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took place by per capita count
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by estate
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national referendum
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liberum veto
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only nobles had the right to vote
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Detailed explanation-1: -Answers. Voting in the estate general had been conducted according to the principle that each estate had one vote. But members of the third estate demanded that voting now be conducted by the assembly as a whole, where each member would have one vote.
Detailed explanation-2: -The political and financial situation in France had grown rather bleak, forcing Louis XVI to summon the Estates General. This assembly was composed of three estates – the clergy, nobility and commoners – who had the power to decide on the levying of new taxes and to undertake reforms in the country.
Detailed explanation-3: -State Assembly Was this answer helpful?
Detailed explanation-4: -The Estates-General of 1789 was a meeting of the three estates of pre-revolutionary France: clergy, nobility, and commons. Summoned by King Louis XVI of France (r. 1774-1792) to deal with financial and societal crises, it ended with the Third Estate breaking from royal authority and forming a National Assembly.