Question

What was the system of voting in the 'Estates General'? What change did the 'Third Estate' want in this system?

Answer 1

Answer:

Voting in the Estates General had been conducted from the past.1. According to the principle 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’.