Why did the king call for a meeting of the Estate General? Why do you think voting in the Estate General was undemocratic?
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Louis XVI had summoned the Estates-General for its first meeting on 5th May 1789
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- Louis XVI summoned the Assembly of the Estates General on 5 May 1789 to pass new tax proposals. The Estates General is a legislative entity to which their delegates is appointed from all three estates.
- In the first & second estates, three hundred representatives were seated, sitting on two sides in rows to each other, while 600 members of the third estate were to stand behind. The third estate consisted of its more thriving and educated members. The assembly was denied entry to farmers, craftsmen and women.
- Louis XVI wanted to voting to be undertaken based on the old principle, where each estate had only one vote. However, the members of the 3rd estate, requested that voting be carried out by the entire Assembly, with each Member having one vote.
- The King refused the appeal because of which the 3rd estate members walked out of, in protest, from the Assembly. The 3rd Estate members proclaimed themselves a National Assembly and began writing a constitution for France that limited the monarch's powers.
- Hence, the concept of voting based on the old system as decided by the King was undemocratic, since the concept of "one man one vote" (implying each person/citizen was eligible to vote and each of the vote was valuable) was not followed and all citizens were not allowed to participate in the voting process
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