Third Estate

This is an appalling way to treat representatives of the Third estate.

In it, he was one of the first to identify the Third Estate as "the nation".

These were the aristocracy, clergy, and third estate from the estates.

The law was met with public outcry from members of the Third Estate.

The other 97% of the population was in the Third Estate.

Also included in the Third Estate were lawyers, merchants, and government officials.

The first estates had to pay no taxes to the second and third estates.

However, the members of the Third Estate were angry.

The king stopped being the "third estate" of the sejm.

There was much resentment from the Third Estate towards its superiors.

I found the representation for the Third Estate composed of six hundred persons.

The members of the third estate, the middle class, were more outspoken and numerous than either of the other two estates.

They were never taxed but could collect taxes from the Third Estate, and had other special privileges.

He advocated doubling the representation of the Third Estate to satisfy the people.

The issue was not resolved and, on 1 June, the Third Estate asked the others to join them.

Among them, 278 belonged to the nobility, 295 to the clergy, and 604 were representatives of the Third Estate.

The 1614 rules differed from practices of local assemblies, where each member had one vote and third estate membership was doubled.

The larger representation of the Third Estate would remain merely a symbol, while giving them no extra power.

It was only the representation of the Third Estate which was furnished by election.

And unlike in other Western cities the Third Estate was conceived along cultural, rather than economic, lines.

But now the century began its headlong race toward revolutionary madness, following the ambitions of the Third Estate.

The Third Estate now believed themselves to be a legitimate authority equal to that of the King.

Monarchiens were once viewed as contributors to the Third Estate.

The deputies of the Third Estate numbered 400.

Many in the Third Estate viewed the double representation as a revolution already peacefully accomplished.