Such divisions of power would have no value, but in proportion as they are sacred.

They are only sacred in proportion as they are the representatives of real existing force in the nation.

Would a revolution which had not paused before the iron gates of the Chateau of Versailles have respected the metaphysical distinction of power of two kinds! Besides, where were, and where would be now, the constitutive elements of two chambers, in a nation whose entire revolution is but a convulsion towards unity?
If the second chamber be democratic and temporary, it is but a twofold democracy with but one common impulse.

It can only serve to retard the common impulse, or destroy the unity of the public will.
If it be hereditary and aristocratic, it supposes an aristocracy pre-existent in, and acknowledged by, the state.

Where was this aristocracy in 1791?
Where is it now?
A modern historian says, "In the nobility, in the presence of social inequalities." But the Revolution was made against the nobility, and in order to level social hereditary inequalities.