Question

On what basis principle was voting conducted in the estate general

Answer 1

Explanation:

Voting in the Estates General in the past had been conducted

1. According to the principle that each estate had one vote.

2. Members of the Third Estate demanded that voting must now be conducted by the assembly as a whole, where each member would have one vote.

3. This was according to the democratic principles put forward by philosophers like Rousseau in his book, The Social Contract.