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The term Fourth Estate or fourth power refers to the press and news media in their explicit capacity, beyond the reporting of news, of wielding influence in politics. [1] The derivation of the term arises from the traditional European concept of the three estates of the realm: the clergy, the nobility, and the commoners.
the first estate of prelates (bishops and abbots) the second estate of lairds (dukes, earls, parliamentary peers (after 1437) and lay tenants-in-chief) the third estate of burgh commissioners (representatives chosen by the royal burghs) The First Estate was overthrown during the Glorious Revolution and the accession of William III. [17]
The inclusion of a fourth estate, Bondeståndet, is a peculiarity of the Swedish realm, with few parallels in Europe. The English word peasant is however an inexact translation, as it did not include the entire peasantry, as it is usually defined in an English context.
The "Fifth" Estate extends the sequence of the three classical Estates of the Realm, nobility, clergy, subjects and the preceding Fourth Estate, essentially the mainstream press. The use of "fifth estate" dates to the 1960s counterculture , and in particular the influential The Fifth Estate , an underground newspaper first published in Detroit ...
The Estates, also known as the States (French: États, German: Landstände, Dutch: Staten, Hungarian: Rendek), was the assembly of the representatives of the estates of the realm, the divisions of society in feudal times, called together for purposes of deliberation, legislation or taxation.
The Fourth Estate is a jargon term for the portions of the United States Department of Defense that are not the military Services [1] including: the Defense Acquisition University; the Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA) the Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA) the Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS) the Defense Health Agency (DHA)
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The Fifth Estate is considered to be best represented by the internet, the mass of knowledge available on the internet. Wikipedia is a very good example of the Fifth Estate in practice. Yes, but these latter are not Estates of the Realm in the proper sense, they are an extension of the concept by analogy. -- Jmabel | Talk 19:11, Jan 22, 2005 (UTC)