Multiple choice

Who demanded that the voting in the Estates General should be conducted by the assembly as a whole, where each member would have one vote?

  1. Members of the 1st estate

  2. Members of the 2nd estate

  3. Members of the 3rd estate

  4. King Louis XVI
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C Correct answer
Explanation

The Third Estate demanded voting by head (one person, one vote) instead of the traditional system where each estate had one vote. This would have given them majority rule since they represented 97% of the population. The First and Second Estates (clergy and nobility) opposed this, and the King favored the status quo.

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