Summary Of Third Estate By Spencer Vs Sieyès

Aristocracy was the wealthiest social group in Europe. Their income came from land and aristocratic people owned at least 1/3 of all land. Aristocracy reached new heights when the European population was growing. When the population was growing the aristocratic people had more slaves under their control, the landed nobility

They were poor yet heavily taxed by government. (Document #1) In the chart, it shows how the 1st and 2nd estates weren’t taxed but 3rd estate was. (Document #2) These two documents show that 3rd estate was not treated fairly, even though 1st and 2nd estates were.

The second estate was made up of rich nobles. The nobles owned 20 percent of the land in France and paid almost no taxes. The third estate was about 90 percent of the people in France. The third estate laked privileges they had to pay high taxes. They felt that their wealth entitled them to a great degree of social states.

The rich use tactics to gain the support of the middle class, but without losing any of their own riches, like wealth or power, for their own gain. It was at the cost of the “slaves, Indians, and poor whites” (Zinn 1). It spared the rich any expenses, but brought them much gain, from the support. Finally, the growth of the colonies positively impacted the rich as well, as they received the profits and benefits from the expansions. With one percent of property owners owning forty four percent of the wealth, it shows how the majority of the wealth was given to the rich, and not distributed among the other classes at all, deepening the division.

In 1789, when the revolt began, statistics about the three classes in France were taken (Document 2). The data showed that the third estate had the highest percentage of total population, total land owned, and income paid in taxes. The third estate consisted of 97% of France, yet they were not given any voice in the government. In Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution, Comte D’Antraigues stated that the people are the foundation of the state and power should lie in it’s citizens (Document 6). Therefore, this signified that since the last social group made up almost all of the country, they should be given more control and input in how the government should be run.

A group wanting to challenge this hierarchy of living will force the privilege to go to any lengths for this “hierarchy’s preservation and hostile toward demands for more equitable social order” (557). This explicitly details how the privilege are trying to be maintain this hierarchy from being reformed and altered. In the event that is does they have to take action because if not this ideology that they live by will be changed. If change is successful, it can lead to the construction of new ideas that see another group more dominate than the other. These ideologies can have an influence within institutions especially those of high power such as universities, government, and media.

This goes back to his question about what creates a nation. His answer is that it contains both the nobles and citizens who live according to the common law and represent the government as a whole. In short terms, the Third Estate contains everything. Sieyès wakes people up that even though the leaders have different responsibilities, it does not exclude them from certain laws or put them above the laws. For a nation to function, all people must serve for the government and obey the laws no matter what position they serve in their

As the French had about Twenty-five million people, 100,000 were clergy, 400,000 were the nobleman, and the rest was known as the third estate. The third estate was left to starve, while Louis XVi and Marie Antoinette lived a luxury lifestyle. The only food they could afford for a limited time was bread, but then the prices got so high, that the rich can only afford it.

One important component in which the upper class rule America is the electoral process. Loose campaign finance regulation, including controversial Supreme Court decisions such as Citizens United v. US and Buckley v. Valeo is a primary cause of the wealthy ruling politics. These two decisions asserted that corporations are not limited in their spending on political candidates. Essentially, the US Supreme Court enabled corporate leaders to buy influence - SuperPAC heads and wealthy businessmen were welcomed to join forces and pour as much money as possible into candidates’ campaigns. The net effect: America’s wealthiest individuals could exert an unmatchable influence on candidates and the electorate while pressing an agenda favoring the upper class.

The second estate, which held 2% of the total population, included the Hershey’s (nobles). And finally, the third estate help most of the population (97%) which includes all the Tootsie Rolls (workers, peasants, and the bourgeoisie).

Throughout the novel, characters are depicted as making great sacrifices to protect their loved ones and uphold their principles. This quote, which is spoken by Sydney Carton as he prepares to sacrifice himself for the sake of Charles Darnay and his family, is a poignant expression of the transformative power of sacrifice. By choosing to sacrifice himself, Carton can redeem his past mistakes. The quote highlights the importance of selflessness and sacrifice in the face of great adversity and underscores the transformative power of choosing to do what is right, even when it is difficult or

Matthew Desmond’s Evicted takes a sociological approach to understanding the low-income housing system by following eight families as they struggle for residential stability. The novel also features two landlords of the families, giving the audience both sides and allowing them to make their own conclusions. Desmond goes to great lengths to make the story accessible to all classes and races, but it seems to especially resonate with people who can relate to the book’s subjects or who are liberals in sound socioeconomic standing. With this novel, Desmond hopes to highlight the fundamental structural and cultural problems in the evictions of poor families, while putting faces to the housing crisis. Through the lens of the social reproduction theory, Desmond argues in Evicted that evictions are not an effect of poverty, but rather, a cause of it.

They also believe that the Third estate fought for equality, better rights, and better social economics. In Lefebvre’s document, he stresses that social, economic, and political factors were very key in his argument. In his document he states that the bourgeoisie, the upper middle-class of the Third Estate, developed “A new ideology which the “philosophers” and “economists” of the had simply put into form.” By doing this and the clergy’s power growing weaker, the Third Estate was able to restore the harmony between fact and law. In Palmer’s document, he believes that the Revolution began with the bourgeoisie resenting the nobleman for his superiority and his arrogance, which caused the social and political collision between the two.

The idea of living within a high class society and the illusion of control becomes appealing to many. Perhaps this is a tactic they use to lure more people to follow them? For instance, George Wilson’s wife, Myrtle has an affair with Tom Buchanan because she was attracted to his wealth and she dreamed of living a life full of excess. “The modern individual is produced by a power that individualizes precisely in order to better control (1470).” In this case, it is apparent that the wealthy individuals went to great lengths to acquire substantial wealth so that they could oppress the disadvantaged members to meet their societal goals.

I belong to the Third Estate, the commoners. We are the largest and make up about 96% of the population. Bankers, doctors, lawyers, merchants, professors and peasants are all the people who belong to the Third Estate. I am a peasant and everyday is a constant struggle to stay alive and well.