Answer the following questions.
1. What were the demands of the Third Estate of the French Society?
2. What was the importance of the Declaration of the Rights of Man?
Answers
1) Demands of the 3rd estate are as follows.....
. They want equal taxation.
. They wanted Right to vote.
. They wanted equal respect and right.
2)
The five values associated with Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen are: (i) Right to Life: Everyone has the right to live in his/her own way. There would not be any restriction from the state.
(ii) Freedom of Speech: Every citizen is entitled to speak whatever he/she thinks right.
(iii) Freedom of Opinion: Every citizen is entitled to write or express his/her own opinion freely.
(iv) Equality before law: Law is the expression of the general will. All citizens have the right to participate in its formation, personally or through their representatives. All citizens are equal before it.
(v) Liberty: Liberty consists of the power to do whatever is not injurious to others.