Because they were close associates with mutual interests and they supported each other.
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The Third Estate was the commons or the ordinary people, the First Estate being the clergy and the Second Estate the nobility .
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The first estate was of the clergy. The second was of the nobility, and the third was everyone else: peasants, merchants, lawyers, industrial workers, artisans,
The first estate consisted of the members of clergy. The second estate was made of the nobility classes, and the third estate was what contained the peasants, Parisians (or urban workers), and the bourgeoisie who were the upper middle class and were the richest of this estate.
Since the Third Estate took up 97% and the Second Estate 2%, the First Estate would be about 1% of the population.