Guilty Against Louis XIV

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A few days ago we saw the traumatic and very controversial case of Louis XIV where charges of mockery against nobility, unnecessary war of expansion, ending religious tolerance of France, over taxation of the third estate and ending religious tolerance of France. From the case, we hear that out of these 5 charges only one was chosen not to be charged, the mockery of the nobility. This being said the Prosecution side 4 over 1 against defense, an easy win for them. Ultimately why we chose to have Louis XIV lose against the charges and be proven guilty is from the strong points we say through prosecution's closing as well as throughout the cross-examinations many lawyers in the prosecution side effortlessly imposed against their witnesses. One …show more content…

So to what I see of it, Louis XIV was willing to put his own people and the country into great debt to satisfy the needs of living an extravagant lifestyle, something that had no benefit to the people whatsoever. Unnecessary war of expansion was another charge we proposed as guilty against Louis XIV. The Dutch War was one of the first great wars Louis XIV fought to supposedly be to glorify France . We later learn that due to Louis XIV rivalry against the Dutch, and his wish to end the Dutch competition he had against them, in trade, so Louis XIV wouldn’t have to worry over other countries being superior over him. That being said that through Louis XIV grudge and failure to be considerate of what the consequences of these wars lead France to, we believed Louis XIV needed to be righteously charged guilty against this second charge. The third charge that was enforced guilty against Louis XIV was over taxation of the Third Estate. Originally prior to the case assumed him not guilty of this charge claiming that over taxation has not been defined according to the fact that the Third Estate were the only ones taxed in the society of