Have you ever been so irritated with the leadership that you just wanted to revolt? Similarly, the people in the first global age were so upset with the government that they revolted. People felt that they were being taken advantage of and would try to end the issues by revolting and passing constitutions. Sometimes they were more successful than others depending on the power and demands. During the Era of Revolution some of the countless causes of each revolution had to do with the political, economic, and social conditions.
One condition that lead to revolts is political (constitutions, republics, monarchy, parliament, enlightenment ideas, bill of rights). A good example of this revolt is the French Revolution. During the course of the Revolution, France was temporarily transformed from an absolute monarchy, where the king monopolized power, to a republic of theoretically free and equal citizens. During the ten years of the Revolution, France first transformed and then dismantled the Old Regime, the political and social system that existed in France before 1789, and replaced it with a series of different governments and took many initiatives they enacted permanently which altered France's political system. These initiatives included the drafting of several bills of rights and constitutions, the establishment of legal equality among all citizens, experiments with representative democracy, the incorporation of the church into the state, and the reconstruction of state administration and the law code.
The revolts often were caused by social conditions. The government had three estates. These were the first, second and third estates which distinguished the clergy, the nobility, and the commoners from each other. Many times the first estate would get special treatments that the third estate would not. Of course the commoners did not find it fair and believed that they should be treated the same as the lords and nobles.
