What issue deadlocked the Estates General in the spring of 1789, and why was this issue crucial to reform?

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The Answer is Answer would ideally include the following. The question that deadlocked the Estates General in May and June 1789 was voting rights-that is, whether the deputies would vote by order or by individual head. The last time the legislature had met, 175 years before, it had voted by orders-one vote for the clergy (the First Estate), one for the nobility (the Second Estate), and one for the representatives of everyone else (the Third Estate). The adoption of this same system in 1789 would likely mean that no substantive reforms would pass, since the conservative members of the First and Second Estates would probably unite to preserve their privileges. However, if each deputy were to vote individually, the Third Estate would almost certainly prevail because it had as many members as the other two orders combined.

What Issue Deadlocked the Estates General in the Spring of 1789