Emmanuel Sieyes; Bourgeois Disdain for Special Privileges of the Aristocracy

Emmanuel Sieyes

Bourgeois Disdain for Special Privileges of the Aristocracy

Jamie Joyce

• Plan:

· What is the Third Estate? Everything

· What has it been until now in the political order? Nothing

· What does it want to be? Something

• We can’t give the nobles credit for taking the honorific posts because members of the Third Estate do have a desire to fill them
• · “No matter how useful you are, no matter how able you are, you can go so far and no further. Honors are not for the like of you”

· The nobles don’t even help the state –all of the arduous tasks in the service are performed by the Third Estate

· What is the Third Estate? All that is fettered and oppressed and would be free and flourishing without the privileged order

· The nobility is a foreigner in our mist

· The nation is a body of associates living under common laws