We knew that the constitution of this country is a monarchy tempered by co-ordinate estates of the realm.

Their organization had been in three separate bodies, representing by election the three estates of the realm-clergy, nobility, and commoners (Third Estate).

The three estates of the realm are the estate of the Lords Spiritual, the estate of the Lords Temporal, and the estate of the Commons.

When the Whigs obtained power in 1830, they found the three estates of the realm opposed to them, and the Government, therefore, could not proceed.

The work was completed in the Diet of the following year, 1627, when the estates of the realm gave their assent, and confirmed the measure....

If the throne was vacant, the Estates of the Realm might place William in it.

The Estates of the Realm deliberated in the old halls and according to the old rules.

Even a King reigning by a hereditary title might well shrink from such a contest with the Estates of the Realm.

The proceeding should have been by address to the three estates of the Realm, asking them to undertake the decision of the question.

The clergy have a meeting of their own called Convocation; and these three-Clergy ,Lords ,andCommons-arecalled the Three Estates of the Realm.

When he had concluded, Halifax, in the name of all the Estates of the Realm, requested the Prince and Princess to accept the crown.

But to a King whose title rested on a resolution of the Estates of the Realm such a contest must almost necessarily be fatal.

A few distinguished persons, agreeing in their general opinions, are the confidential advisers at once of the Sovereign and of the Estates of the Realm.