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To approve new tax plans, Louis XVI convened an Estates General Assembly on May 5, 1789.

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The above statement is true.
To approve new tax plans, Louis XVI convened an Estates General Assembly on May 5, 1789. In the past, voting in the Estates-General was done under the premise that each estate had a single vote. Louis XVI was also adamant about keeping up the same routine this time. The third estate, however, insisted that the entire assembly cast a vote, with each member having one vote. This was one of the democratic tenets advanced by thinkers like Rousseau in his work, The Social Contract. Third-estate representatives left the meeting in protest after the king turned down their request.

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