We have seen how the birth of a constitution took place in the second
epoch. It is clear that it was designed solely for the government. It would be
ridiculous to suppose that the nation itself was bound by the formalities
or the constitution to which it had subjected those it had mandated. If a
nation had to wait for a positive mode of being in order to become a nation,
it would simply never have had an existence. A nation is formed What is the Third Estate?