Question

The 'active citizens' ________________.
A. were entitled to vote.
B. were not entitled to vote.
C. were entitled to protest.
D. were entitled to accumulate wealth.

Answer 1

Hint:
It refers to a way of deciding something by the means of asking people to express regarding the choices and determining what most of the people want.

Complete solution:
The citizens who were entitled to vote were defined as the active citizens. Active citizens are particularly those citizens who are literate and have knowledge about the law in the country. They have a continuous and fixed income and consist of the right to vote. In order to become an active citizen a person must be more than 25 years of age and have to pay taxes equal to at least 3 days of a labourer's wages.

Women, children, and other people were termed as passive citizens. They were not entitled to vote. The difference among active and passive citizens was made at the time of French Revolution. Passive citizens did not have any property rights. Active citizens were needed to pay taxes equal to about three days work a year. These citizens were required to be literate, had to speak French and have been resident for more than one year.

Hence, the correct answer is option A.

Note:
At the time of French Revolution an uncertain difference was made between active and passive citizens in the year 1791. The Legislative Assembly was chosen by a process called indirect election, the electors of the assembly were by themselves elected as active citizens. Citizens who were male and whose annual taxes equalled the local wages that were paid for about three days of labour this disenfranchised about around half of the male citizens of France. Now even higher economic requirements for the electors as well as the members of the assembly left only around 50000 illegible men in a country of nearly about 25 million people.