The Tennis Court Oath was made in Versailles, France, in Salle du Jeu de Paume, which was the royal tennis court. This oath was made because the First and Second estates locked the Third estate out of the normal meeting place. The third estate was attempting a reform and were outvoted. The First estate was comprised of the clergy, the Second of the nobility, and the Third estate made up the rest of the populous. As times were hard and the majority of the people within the country were ultimately outvoted and ignored by the other estates, they were forced to form their own assembly. The people made an oath not to leave until a constitution was written. This was a very important moment at the beginning of the French Revolution and the eventual declaration from the committee, Declaration of the Rights of the Man and of the Citizen of 1789, is a document still studied today.