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**__THE TENNIS COURT OATH__**
On June 20, 1789, all the Estates of France had called a meeting to take place in a meeting hall named Menus Plaisirs. This meeting was about current reforms that would help the Third Estate get more rights. The Third Estate also had the advantage because it was a head-count vote and not every estate only had one vote. When the Third Estate had arrived at the meeting hall the doors were locked by the king so that they couldn't be part of the meeting about the reforms. After the Third Estate had realized this they had moved the meeting to a nearby indoor tennis court. This meeting was about how the Third Estate would now protect itself from the king and the other Estates. One of the major ideas was that the entire Third Estate should move into Paris to try and protect itself. This idea was turned down because it could easily of been seen as a act of revolutionary possibilities. In the end the Third Estate had decided to sign an document of alliagance that stated that they had to stay together until a constitution had been written. Everybody in the third estate had signed this document except for one man, Martin Dauch, who thought that the document wasn't legitament unless it was signed by the king. This document was later name the "Tennis Court Oath"