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Estates-General: see States-General States-General or Estates-General, diet or national assembly in which the chief estates (see estate ) of a nation—usually clergy, nobles, and towns (or commons)—were represented as separate bodies. ..... Click the link for more information. . |
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Richardson does not identify the new style of kingship with the revival of Roman law, the creation of a standing royal army, the transfer of power from the nobility to the king or the decline of the Estates-General and other consultative assemblies. The third estate's reconstitution of the Estates-General as a National Assembly (p. They stipulated that this was the one demand their deputies to the Estates-General could not sacrifice to the general interests of the nation. |
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