Can you possibly expect that it would be feasible to admit a part of the first two orders to the lower house? In that case, you will have to show us how to form a single common legislature out of several different orders. As has just been said, a common legislature cannot be anything other than a body of citizens with the same civil and political rights. It is a mockery to conceive of one in any other terms and imagine that one can form a common legislature by making citizens with unequal civil and political privileges sit together in the same chamber. You will not find so strange a combination in England. I should add that the part of the nobility that you propose to introduce to your so-called House of Commons would not need much time to seize control of most of the deputations. The Third Estate would lose its authentic representatives,
and we would go back to the old state of affairs, where the nobility was
everything and the Nation, nothing