third estate
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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
The third estate wanted civil liberty above all; political liberty came second only, as a means and guarantee for the former.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 7 "Fox, George" to "France" by Various
The former in his interpretation of history substituted social physics for economic law and politics, and in spite of many idealistic and positivistic uncertainties, he almost discovered the genesis of the third estate.
From Essays on the Materialistic Conception of History by Antonio Labriola
It had long been said that the third estate paid with its property, the nobility with its blood, the clergy with its prayers.
From Paris from the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Volume 1 by William Walton
