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Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to produce a scenario in which the Estates-General, convened in 1789, is able to conduct the business with which it was assigned. You are permitted to adjust with the general details as you see fit to a modest degree, if needed (such as the year in which it is convened). Ideally, the result should include a continuation in some form of the traditional three estates.

For starters, my humble proposal is that the debate over whether to vote by order or by head be answered with a simple: Oui. All votes will be counted by both, and require both a majority of the individual delegates and a majority of the orders as a whole. Since the Third Estate had won their desired increase in representation (they, in fact, outnumbered the first two Estates combined), the would have a voice in the affairs of estate, while simultaneously still protecting the prerogatives of the first two Estates.
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