WI: Political representation based on the Estates of the Realm?

I see. I don't frankly see that system surviving the revolutionary era. At best, they would be reduced as ceremonial chambers at most or political roles, with another general assembly taking on the legislative role. Three votes is too little to satisfy any sector of the population.

Maybe I'm wrong, of course.
If you allow me to over simplified it a little, when Louis XVI called the Estates General to discuss the money problems the third estate decided to discuss why they only had one vote even though they were the largest estate instead of the money issues. Why the king found out he disbanded the the estates because they were doing their job, then we get the Tennis Court Oath and the beginnings of the revolution.
 
South Africa had seats reserved for coloreds and Asians toward the end

I thought that it had whole legislative bodies reserved for coloured and Asians at the end.

Also, might the Three (or multiple) Estates system be reformed into a kind of electoral college? Or, perhaps each estate has to debate each issue within itself, then present the result to the "estates general", which then works out the result based on some kind of electoral college - each estate's collective decision has equal(ish) weight.
 
I see. I don't frankly see that system surviving the revolutionary era. At best, they would be reduced as ceremonial chambers at most or political roles, with another general assembly taking on the legislative role. Three votes is too little to satisfy any sector of the population.

Maybe I'm wrong, of course.

I think probably the clergy and nobility would be merged at one point, and maybe the commons could be split into middle-class and working-class estates. That way the three estates structure would be preserved, but the distribution of votes would be less unequitable, and the middle class, who'd be most likely to lead any attempts to change the previous system (cf. OTL's French Revolution), would now have less incentive to do so.
 
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