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 representatives of the third estate declare themselves a 'National Assembly.'

From An Introduction to the History of Western Europe by Robinson, James Harvey

However this may have been, the good effect of the exercise of these rights, imperfect as they were, by the third estate, must be highly estimated.

From History of The Reign of Philip The Second King of Spain Volume The Third and Biographical & Critical Miscellanies by Prescott, William Hickling

In 1789 he was elected by the third estate of Paris to the states general, and attracted attention by his speeches against social inequalities.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" by Various