Essay On The Third Estate

Should the Third Estate be equal to the nobles and clergy?Yes, the third estate should be completely equal to the upper classes for three major reason. First, they took over two thirds of the nation’s population and should be treated more than just the ‘common people.’Second, the voting system outruled the third estate every time and the taxes that were only issued to the working class and not the nobles and clergy made their rules unfair also. Lastly , with being tired of their power and the enlightenment rising the french revolution came to part a role in the equality of the nation’s people.
Emmanuel Joseph stated the third estate is basically the nation, which is in fact true because majority of the population was indeed the third estate.The clergy and nobles only took up one third of the nation’s population which leaves the rest of the population to the third estate or the common people. Obviously, a nation or country can not just …show more content…
They had nothing to give them the power to overthrow the nobles and clergy, and they were truly fed up with the rules and conditions of being apart of the “third estate.” Even though they made up almost 67% of the french nations population they still had no drive to do something about it until the rise of the enlightenment came to play and gave them new visions such as “liberty”, “equality” and “brotherhood”. Once they proposed the idea of it the first and second estate still payed no mind. They then raided the arms bank and used their own weapons against them to start the french revolution. Since this happened, the third estate made a flag which is now known as the flag of the french, the red and blue that used to be the flag but the white was inserted in between both of them which represented the common people. The real question is what would 've happened if the third estate got their way right away, and that would of changed the way we live