The french revolution
In 1789 financial times were hard in France. The peasants were upset that the nobles were living lavish collecting taxes, while they suffered. The prices on food were rising and people were starving. The France social system was out of date and consisted of three classes. The first class was the clergy (the man of the church), they paid no taxes and led a good easy life. The second class were the nobles (the people who had jobs in government or in the military) the nobles were separated into two groups, the noble of the robe (the man who paid for there title) and the noble of the sword (the man who inherited the title). These people also paid no taxes a
By 1789 half of the taxes went on paying interest on the debt. The third class was the largest class, this class was separated into three groups. Life did get easier but the people sharing the burden on the taxes. They also wanted a guarantee by the government to give them living wages. Man also had the right to enjoy the natural right or the right to property, security and resistance to oppression. Deficit Spending is when the country spends more money than what is coming in. Theses people also paid for Frances deficit spending. It also granted freedom to religion and called for taxes to be levied according to ones pay. The working class citizens called the San-culottes pushed the revolution into some more radical action. This led in a massive change of government. But this was still not enough for some. By 1791 man San-culottes demanded that France become a republic. It was feuds such as these that didn't help France. The document was modelled in a part of the American Declaration of Independence. Although they did manage to gain some rights.
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