Q1. Which assembly in France alone had the KS-5 authorty to vote on Now taxes?
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Very broad question. The answer could be in book form, and indeed there are many books about the French Revolution.
As a summary:
Coming into 1789, France was an absolute monarchy with all political power vested in and flowing from the King. In 1789, bankruptcy forced the King to call the Estates-general (parliament). The Third Estate (the commons), with popular support, declared itself a National Assembly, or National Constituent Assembly, and seized government power, despite the King’s attempts to stop it meeting. Having failed in this, the King had no option but to provisionally recognise the Assembly as his equal. But in practice, the Assembly had seized all political power, and it began legislating and drafting a constitution. The King’s status remained unsettled, but you could call it a kind of provisional constitutional monarchy.
In 1791, the King tried to flee the country, presumably to find allies to make war on the Assembly and the Revolution. He was captured and placed under house arrest. This precipitated a crisis in the Assembly, which dissolved itself, bringing the constitution it had decided into effect. There were elections for a new Legislative Assembly. The new constitution was expressly a constitutional monarchy, with a unicameral parliament and limited veto powers for the King. But he was still under arrest, and although he pretended to be reconciled to the constitution, he obviously wasn’t, and evidence to that effect soon mounted.mark it as the branliest