c) |204| The universal estate has, as its business, the universal interests of the social condition; it must therefore be exempted from direct labour for needs, either through private means, or through being indemnified by the state, which claims its activity, so that its private interest finds its satisfaction in its labour for the universal.
§ 205: The universal estate
The third estate takes care of the universal affairs of society. These are above all the civil servants.
What does it live on?
It must be free from labor for its own needs. Either it has enough resources of its own. Or the state pays it. So it finds its own advantage precisely in its work for the universal.
Summary: The universal estate works for the common good. To make this possible, it has resources of its own, or the state secures its livelihood. So in this estate, private interest and the universal coincide.
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