third estate
Example Sentences
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And now the fencing has come to the Supreme Court, to the third estate.
From Washington Post • May 10, 2022
The term had a special resonance with his Francophone audience because it recalled the third estate, “tiers-état,” of the French Revolution.
From Time • Aug. 26, 2015
In order to moderate the selfishness and tyranny of the first and second estates, composed of the clergy and nobility, he erected the cities into a third estate, of equal legislative authority.
From Monks, Popes, and their Political Intrigues by Alberger, John
It was the lower class that won the battles of the third estate; that took the Bastille, and made France a constitutional monarchy; that took the Tuileries, and made France a Republic.
From The History of Freedom by Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron
The third estate insisted on the vote by head, the graduated abolition of privilege in all governmental affairs, a written constitution and union.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 7 "Fox, George" to "France" by Various
