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By voting together. Senior clergy (Bishops and Abbots) were appointed by the King, and mostly of the nobility. They naturally voted with the nobility, giving them a two-to-one majority over the Third Estate; voting was not by head (the Third Estate was far more numerous) but by Estate.

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