which system would be better at defending interests of townspeople and peasants? the english parliament or the french estates general

Question

Required to write essay, and would be easier if I knew of possible answers to write about. 

Answer 1

I am wiling to bet this is in your textbook and was covered in class since your teacher asked about it!

 

Don;t give up every time a question looks hard or you do not instantly know the answer. usually there is not a "right answer."  Your teacher is testing your ability to analyze a problem, come to a conclusion, and write persuasively about it.  Sooner than you realize you will be thanking our teacher for making you do this!  yeah, yeah you think I'm crazy blah blah.  But I am also correct!  remeber that when you are sitting for the bar exam and wish you had wroked more on your writing.  

 

you could Google the two gpvernment bodies mentioned.  be sure you stay on the right time period!  I imagine you are focuing on estates bgeneral in 1789 since that was the first meeting of that body since 1614.  SO we are talking French revolution!  

 

here's a web site:  http://ncpedia.org/history/20th-Century/1920s-women

 

Okay what about the British parlioament.  First we are going to be concerned with about the same time period, right?  

 

there is not an english parliament OF 1789 like there was an E.-G. OF 1789.  But google english parliament in the 1780's.  

 

Aha!  You will discover 1780 was a big year.  So you need to drill down to look for what the question is asking:  How did the british parliament in the 1780['s ( and beyond) generally handle townspeople and peasant rights?  Here is a site that helps

 

http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/themes/society

 

What you have to do is look at the facts and come to a judgment on what you think they show.  Chances are we would agree on some things but my answer would still look different from yours.  But key in on whether and how the rights of twonspeople and peasants improved as a result of what the two bodies were doing, abd remember to think about whether attempted reforms lasted!