It is the nobility that is now no more than the shadow of what it was, and this shadow is still trying to terrify a whole nation, but in vain â unless this nation wants to be regarded as the vilest on earth. third and final demand of the third estate That the Estates-General should vote, not by orders, but by heads.f the aristocrats seek to keep the people in a state of oppression at the expense of that very freedom of which they have proved themselves to be unworthy, the people may well ask on what grounds. If the answer is âby right of conquestâ, you will agree that this means going back in time a bit.