...a more desirable step than auy other. But the last meeting of such Cortes, consisting of members of the three Estates of the realm ; the clergy, the nobility, and the people, had been so far back as 1697. Had they continued to assemble, and to assert their independence...

...This was the case in 1352 ; and in 1697 a meeting of the Cortes is recorded, consisting of members of the three estates of the realm : the clergy, the nobility, and the people. It is easy to imagine that violent opposition to the Constitution and the Cortes should have...

...Essays. 454. RAN8OME (1896) In this assembly were represented each of what were beginning to be known as the three estates of the realm, the clergy, the nobility, and the commonalty. . . . Thirty years had elapsed since the citizens and burgesses had been called to Simon...

...In this assembly Model Parlia were represented each of what were beginning to be known ment ol "95as the three estates of the realm, the clergy, the nobility, and the commonalty. For the clergy, separate writs were sent to the archbishops, the abbots, to the masters...

...they nominated their own candidates. They decreed that members should be indiscriminately elected by the three estates of the realm, the clergy, the nobility and the people, instead of having separate members for each order, and they issued a dazzling programme of...

...States-General Necker to meet in Versailles on May 1, 1789. A new chapter, of inrii ST.hi k ra; 7. 121 The States-General, or assembly representing the three...held 175 years before. The institution might have ?«u<*al . _ T . . inst1tut1on been considered dead. Now, in a great nat1onal cr1sis, it was revived,...

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...the people to give open voice to their wrongs. THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY The Estates General represented the three estates of the realm, — the clergy, the nobility, and the commoners. When it assembled trouble at once arose as to whether it should sit as one great body in which each...

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...coming meeting were made. The States-General, or assembly representing the three estates of the reaJm, the clergy, the nobility, and the commoners, was an...of England. The last meeting, indeed, had been held '75 years before. The institution might have been considered dead. Now, in a great national crisis,...