The Priest Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès Argued in a Pamphlet That the Third

question 34

Multiple Choice

The priest Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès argued in a pamphlet that the Third Estate should itself be:

• A) The source of all Catholic priests, rather than the First Estate.
• B) Taxed more heavily than the other two Estates, since it constituted the bulk of the population.
• C) Forbidden to purchase noble titles, which had enabled some to enter the Second Estate.
• D) The "national assembly", since it represented the will of the nation.

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