Tennis Oath
What was the purpose of the Tennis Court Oath?
The Tennis Court Oath, the oath, which corresponds to most members of the Estates General of France ( approximately to the parliament in the UK or the Congress in the U.S.) swore if they are afraid that the king tried to impose his will were. King Louis XVI had ordered soldiers to prevent the doors of Parliament and barricades that prevent members of Parliament from entering. In response, they met at a tennis court and swore an oath that they would continue to find places to meet to meet and never fail until they had come with a new constitution for France. In essence, she swore an oath that the king could not stop Parliament from meeting – swearing the oath was actually an act of betrayal, because the king actually claim has the authority. This oath, which all but one of the 577 members of the Third Estate (corresponding to the lower house was sworn in as the British House of Commons or the U.S. House of Representatives) was solid enough to be the king in the order of the First and Second Estates (the upper houses, scare consisting of the nobility and the clergy) for the third level and again to meet as a National Assembly. Many members of the First Estate (nobility) and the oath to the 576 members of the Third Estate. The oath was to tell the king that he Lost power over parliament, and yes it caused a tremendous amount of other revolutionary activity directly to the French Revolution and the probing eventuially King Ludwig head.
