Question

State the events that led to the formation of national assembly

Answer 1

The national assembly was formed on June 20, 1789 by representatives of the third estate. Toraise new taxes Louis XVI had convened the estate general on may 5 1789 at Versailles. There hadbeen no such meeting since 1614. All the three Estates were represented. Voting was to beconducted on the old principle- each estate having one vote. The third estate represented by its 600educated and prosperous members demanded voting be conducted by the assembly as a wholewhere each member would have one vote. Louis XVI's rejection of the proposal led to a walk out by

the third estate. The representatives regarded themselves as spokesmen for the whole of france. On20 June 1789, in the hall of the tennis court, members of the third estate declared themselves theNational Assembly and swore not to disperse till they had drafted a constitution for france thatwould limit the powers of the monarch

Answer 2

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On June 17, emboldened by the joining of some of the nobility and the clergy, the Third Estate declared itself the National Assembly of France, imploring the remainder of the Estates-General to join the Assembly but also vowing to do the business of France with or without them.

While the National Assembly formed without the king's permission, the Assembly considered itself to be acting in the king's interests and originally they declared all their laws subject to royal approval. Among the laws the Assembly enacted in these first days were acts claiming the prior taxation laws to be illegal and making promises to institute new, fairer legislation, though in order to pay French debt they kept the old tax laws in place until something better could be devised.

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