Post-French Revolution Theories of Government

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After the French Revolution, the nation of France wanted to take on a different type of governing. There were those who wanted to go back to the feudal system that was in place before and those who wanted a limited monarchy with a constitution. Edmund Burke and Emmanuel Sieyés were writers who had strong opinions on the both sides of the scale. Sieyés believed in the Third Estate, and believed that they could run a better nation, where as Burke said that the nobility or the Second Estate was the only people that could do that job. But as we can see Sieyés view was the one that thrived in the end.

Sieyés believed that the nobility was rewarded for little to no work, and he was right. As he said, " In setting aside any function whatsoever to serve as an appenage for a distinct class among citizens... that it is no longer the man alone who does the work that is necessary to reward, but all unemployed members of that same caste..." Everyone that was a noble, unemployed and the families included, got rewarded. Only a few of the nobles did that work, and all the ...

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