The Abbé Emmauel-Joeph Sieyès (1748-1836) a middle-class priest wrote a pamphlet, "What is the Third Estate" (1789) in which he wrote about the current state of affairs and the Third Estate (Hunt, p. 107) The message of the Third Estate was simple. The few noble orders privileged today were far from being useful to the nation (Hunt, p. 109). The effects of the current monopoly situation shackled and oppressed all those who did not fall into the category of the noble order. Those who did not fall within the noble order constituted the Third Estate, which represented ninety-nine percent of the population (Hunt, p. 109). The Third Estate was made up of the people who did the types of work that sustains society, those who worked the countryside, those who sold raw materials, finished products and labor of various kinds. They were the merchants and wholesalers; they represented private occupations that usefully and consequently served the people (Hunt, p. 108). The noble order was opposed to the Third Estate. The noble order was composed of public offices, the army, the courts, the church and the administration (Hunt, p. 109). Only the privileged, lucrative and highly honored order could assume public office (Hunt, p. 109). Sieyès describes the noble order as an office that is considered a prerogative and order separate from that of the citizens, arguing that the noble order had privileges, exemptions and even rights clearly different from those of the rest of the citizens (Hunt, p. 109) . Sieyès strongly condemned the current political and social structures of the noble order, charging, in the most polite way, that the noble order was a “law unto itself” (Hunt, p. 110). T...... half of the sheet...... 111). According to Sieyès, that of the Third Estate could only achieve this objective. “ A body of citizens living under the common law and represented by the same legislature (Hunt, p. 110). Without the privileged order, the Third Estate could flourish freely and the best and most honored places could be infinitely improved by those of the Third Estate (Hunt, p.109). In Abbé Emmauel-Joeph Sieyès' pamphlet, “What is the Third Estate,” Sieyès describes everything that constitutes a democracy. The Third Estate was the right to common laws, political rights, and equality of the nation's citizens equal to all others within the nation (Hunt, p. 111). Works Cited Sieyes, Emmanuel. "What is the Third Estate?" Reproduced by Lynn Hunt, editor and translator. The French Revolution and human rights: a brief documentary history. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 1996.