The three estates had an equal vote in the Estates General, which gave the first estate (clergy) and the second estate (nobility) both equal presence with the third estate. This was problematic for two reasons. The first issue was that these votes were vastly out of proportion with the amount of people that they represented. The third estate was 97-98% of the French population, but had only 33% of the vote. The second issue was that the equal votes of the first and second estate served as an effective veto to oppose any changes or improvements which the third estate would request, effectively making the third estate unable to use the Estates General as a vehicle to benefit them in any way.
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They thought the general estate was unfair because they had much more privileges than they did. Because of the Enlightment, the Third Estate wanted equality and liberty. They were also inspired by the American Revolution and began questioning the structure of their society.
They were the largest estate but had the least amount of power and money. The 1st and 2nd estate voted against them. This helped lead to the French Revolution.
Because the first two estates were filled with people of higher status so they had more influence on who to put the burdens on
If I am not mistaken the Third Estate referred to either the Clergy-By extention the whole Church establishment, or the Print Media- the Press. I am not sure which one you mean.
Because people were taxed unfairly and also didn't want to be ruled by a country across the ocean
The Third Estate was the estate in which the bourgeoisie belonged to.
The Third Estate was the commons or the ordinary people, the First Estate being the clergy and the Second Estate the nobility .
The Third Estate.
the wealthiest members in the third estate were the businessmen the lawyers, etc.
The traditional status of the third estate was that they were middle-upper middle class and above but not nobles also known as bourgeoisie. They did not get the same number of votes as the first and second estate and was not treated as well. Sieyes wants to change the traditional status of the third estate by advocating the abandonment of the traditional functioning of the three Estates as separate parties and the combine them into a single chamber; National Assembly.