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The Third Estate asked for a new voting system in which each representative would vote individually. When the king refused, the Third Estate declared that, as the true representative of the nation, it was forming a National Assembly.
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It was born of an idea of the Constituent Assembly, which was formed by the assembly of the Estates General to draft a new constitution.
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When revolutionary insurgents stormed and seized control of the medieval armoury.
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The king locked the National Assembly out of the Estates General, so they met at a tennis court nearby. They declared that they would not leave the tennis court until France had a constitution.
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