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After assessing the situation, Necker insisted that Louis XVI call together the Estates-General, a French congress that originated in the medieval period and consisted of three estates. The First Estate was the clergy, the Second Estate the nobility, and the Third Estate effectively the rest of French society.
In the pamphlet, SieyÃ¨s argues that the third estate â the common people of France â constituted a complete nation within itself and had no need of the dead weight of the two other orders, the first and second estates of the clergy and aristocracy.