Usage of "the three estates"

A major social class or order of persons regarded collectively as part of the body politic of the country (especially in the United Kingdom) and formerly possessing distinct political rights.

Uso de the three estates en inglés

This being touched with the sceptre, the three estates proceeded to elect their representatives. 
 The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II. / Continued fro... 

Not in opinion, Sir John, which is one of the three estates of the government. 
 The Monikins 

He had quickly assembled the three estates at Paris, all of whom promised the king their aid. 
 Yolanda: Maid of Burgundy 

This sturdy and wholesome contention among the three estates ended at last in the victory of the kings. 
 The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte. Vol. 1 (of 4) 

Each estate voted as a unit, and two out of the three estates were sufficient to carry a measure. 
 A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. 

Thought the sovereign is a constituting branch of Parliament, the word is generally used to denote the three estates named above. 
 The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary: Section P and Q 

Is it not, that Hastings really was plotting to defeat the new settlement contrary to the intention of the three estates? 
 Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of King Richard the Third 

Everywhere, too, we find some attempt at representative assemblies, based on the principle of the three estates, clergy, nobles, and commons. 
 The Beginnings of New England / Or the Puritan Theocracy in its ... 

Edward's plan was that the three estates-clergy ,barons ,andcommons: those who pray, those who fight, and those who work-shouldbe represented. 
 The Rise of the Democracy 

These laws were made or altered by the free assent of the three estates in whom the law-making power vested by the Constitution. 
 Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 

In August, 1452, a deputation from the three estates of the province waited upon Charles at Bourges, but did not obtain their demands. 
 A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 3 

Their organization had been in three separate bodies, representing by election the three estates of the realm-clergy, nobility, and commoners (Third Estate). 
 A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. 

When the Whigs obtained power in 1830, they found the three estates of the realm opposed to them, and the Government, therefore, could not proceed. 
 Sketches 

A full parliament of the three estates sat with the king at Westminster from February 28 to March 21, 1305. 
 The History of England / From the Accession of Henry III. to the... 

The Queen.-" Imeanthe three estates-theclergy, the nobles, and the cities." 
 History of the United Netherlands, 1588b 

The Three Estates of clergy, nobles, and commons had existed in France from time immemorial. 
 The Fighting Governor : A Chronicle of Frontenac 

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