be native or naturalized citizens.

Each voting assembly would also collect a cahier de doléances (notebook of grievances) to be considered by the convocation. Across all three Estates, there was general agreement that the fiscal crisis was the result of the inefficiency and wastefulness of the king's ministers and the Estates-General should become a regular assembly, creating a parliamentary regime. The cahiers expressed agreement that the Church was in urgent need of reform to improve the position of the parish clergy and to check abuses,