The Third Estate's Demands

Over the past years, the the burghers have become increasingly dissatisfied with their status in our nation. Although their contributions to the treasury through taxes on production and commerce make up most of the nation's revenues, they have little influence over how the state is governed. Indeed, they have looked on in dismay as the our ruler charts a path towards the ever-greater centralization of royal power, side-lining the checks and balances the estates were once able to impose upon their.\n\nThey have now come forward with demands that some of the absolutist reforms of recent years be repealed and they be granted further lands to compensate for their contributions. If denied, their dissatisfaction will be immeasurable, and their trust in the our nation ruined.