The common people of France constitutes a complete nation within itself and had no need of the dead weight of the two other orders, the first and second estate of the clergy and aristocracy.
The north army is known as the Union army and the south army is called to be Confederate.
Explanation:
there were theaters of war and the theater is a large area which is not yet taken. Army of Potomac is the major union army and the army of Virginia is the main army of southern states. Citizens opened recruiting offices, went on rallies and and signed up voluntarily the document which wanted him to become a soldier. Willingness to fight and the spirit of nationalism is high due to the union recruiting offices and the confederates have to open offices prior to the union offices because of its smaller population. Each state in the north as well as south were responsible for raising armies.
Conscription laws were passed to fill the positions in the army. It was observed that the confederate soldiers were considered to be highly trained and abled whereas the union soldiers took a long time to get trained in order to make a come back. Desertion used to be a major problem in the confederates. Union had more troops and good rifles. Confederates were better led by the Army general and had higher morale. Union believed in anti slavery dictum whereas Confederates believed in slavery.
The electoral system was informed by the decision that the populace at large is ignorant, uneducated and uninformed to make rational political decisions and choices and thus there was a fear that this ignorant majority would be cheated out to make poor political choices at the ballot.
the current population can not be referred to by those terms as there are cases that they have made better decisions at the ballot, only to be overturned by the electoral college.