{"id":4458,"date":"2015-01-24T11:17:08","date_gmt":"2015-01-24T16:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/?p=4458"},"modified":"2016-02-01T14:07:51","modified_gmt":"2016-02-01T19:07:51","slug":"the-declaration-of-independence-and-the-third-estate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/2015\/01\/24\/the-declaration-of-independence-and-the-third-estate\/","title":{"rendered":"The Declaration of Independence and the Third Estate"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Declaration of Independence<\/em> discusses the reasons why the United States decided to break off from England and become its own nation. This document discusses how it is a government\u2019s responsibility to protect certain rights of the citizens: \u201cLife, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness\u201d (Blaisdell 64). If a government does not protect these rights, then it is the rights of the governed people to \u201cabolish it, and to institute new Government\u201d (Blaisdell 64). The British government did not protect and uphold these rights of the people; rather, it caused a series of \u201crepeated injuries\u201d and established \u201cabsolute Tyranny over these States\u201d (Blaisdell 64). The writers of the Declaration were clearly not satisfied with the government and how it protected its people. Therefore, they intended to create their own new form of government, which would do a better job in helping its citizens instead of merely ignoring their concerns. In this case, political power is created through a new form of government with different branches, such as a Representative House, Legislature, and Judiciary powers.<\/p>\n

In France, the citizens also were not satisfied with their government. The Third Estate of France is described as \u201ceverything;\u201d the people of the Third Estate are the commoners (Blaisdell 70). Emmanuel Joseph Sieyes, author of What is the Third Estate?<\/em> describes how the Third Estate is a complete nation by itself. In order to be considered a nation, it must provide \u201cprivate activities and public services\u201d (Blasdell 71), which the Third Estate does provide. For example, it must provide public services such as \u201cthe army, the law, the Church, and the bureaucracy\u201d and private activities such as merchants, families who work on land, and the sale of goods (Blaisdell 71-72). France cannot run without the Third Estate and would ultimately do much better without the first two estates. The French are concerned with establishing their own rights: \u201cLiberty, Prosperity, Security, and Resistance of Oppression\u201d (Blaisdell 80). The French were less interested than the Americans establishing a new form of government that protected the rights of the citizens; rather, they concentrated on establishing a government that kept part of their old form of government and bashing the rest of their government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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