Excerpt from The University Studies of the University of Nebraska, Vol. 9
The success or failure of the reforms anticipated from the meeting of the states general depended primarily upon the solution of two fundamental questions, namely, representation and organization. The sum total of opinions as to their settlement was as broad and as deep in content as was the volume of the revolutionary spirit itself, and the extremes of opinion differed widely. A large majority of the nobles, including the superior clergy, demanded that each order should be given what seemed to them the constitutional one-third representation, while the demands of the tiers-etat ranged from representation proportionate to the relative population of the three estates - which would have entitled the tiers-etat to at least ninety-six out of every hundred deputies - to a representation equal to one-half of all the delegates to the states general. The king in his council (December 27, 1788) decided that the third estate should be given a representation equal in number to the combined representation of the clergy and of the nobility. This decision, although most unsatisfactory to large circles of individuals of each of the three orders, was, nevertheless, accepted with a sufficient measure of grace. The solution was truly a great victory for the tiers-etat provided the states general should constitute itself as a single assembly.
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