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WHAT ARE THE FOUR ESTATES?

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One FrontBurnervian notes it’s a great question because Bastille Day (which will forever live in infamy) is around the corner. But he proceeded to get the answer wrong. Other tries were closer. I’m going to split first prize between David Swinney and Ed Link, whose answers were: the nobility, the clergy, those not members of the first two (the commons), and, added some two-hundred years later, the press.

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