HUMA 1170 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Olympe De Gouges, Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès, Haitian Revolution
26 Oct 2016
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Week 7 the enlightenment 3: critique, progress, and the public sphere. Three estates: think of estates as kind of classes that had their own specific laws attached to them. Clergy: those who prayed (church, about 1% of population. Nobility: the nobility, royalty (not monarch), aristocrats, 2% of the population. Everyone else: farmers, craftspeople, merchants, lawyers, 97% of the population, earned less, paid higher taxes than first two estates. Louis and conservative clergy and nobility are working behind scenes to put this down. The third estate organizes to seize weapons. Men are born and remain free and equal in rights, social distinctions may be founded only upon the general good the aim of all political association in the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man. These rights are liberty, property, security, and resistance to oppression. The principles of all sovereignty resides essentially in the nation.
