Question

Explain the voting system of Estate General.​

Answer 1

Answer:

Estates-General, also called States General, French États-Généraux, in France of the pre-Revolutionary monarchy, the representative assembly of the three “estates,” or orders of the realm: the clergy and nobility—which were privileged minorities—and a Third Estate, which represented the majority of the people

Answer 2

Voting in the estate general had been conducted according to the principle that each estate had one vote.

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..This was one of the democratic principles put forward by Rousseau in his book 'the social contract'.