In the second section of the Estates, whose members are drawn from the changing and variable element in civil society, the guarantee that the deputies will have the qualities and disposition required for this end for independent means have already claimed their right in the first section consists above all in the disposition, skill, and know ledge Kenntnis of the institutions and interests of the state and civil society which they have acquired through the actual conduct of business in positions of authority or political office, and which have proved their worth in practice; it further consists in the sense ofauthority and political sense which they have developed and put to the test in the process.