Oliver W. Lembcke is professor of political science at Leipzig University (Germany). The main focus of his research interests are in the field of politcal theory, the history of political ideas, and legal politics. His publications include studies on constitutional courts, modern constitutionalism, and on the history of European political ideas during the 17th and 18th centuries.Florian Weber is a senior researcher in political theory at Jena University (Germany). His main fields of interest are the French Revolution and french constitutional thought. His publications include articles and books on Benjamin Constant and Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès.

• Foreword ... ixNote to the Reader ... xiAcknowledgements ... xiiIntroduction to Sieyès’s Political Theory ... 1Oliver W. Lembcke and Florian Weber1 What Is the Third Estate? ... 432 Reasoned Exposition of the Rights of Man and Citizen ... 1183 Controversy between Mr. Paine and M. Emmanuel Sieyès ... 1354 Of the Gains of Liberty in Society and in the Representative System ... 1445 Sieyès’s Views Concerning Several Articles of Sections IV and V of the Draft Constitution [First Thermidorian Intervention] .... 1526 The Opinion of Sieyès Concerning the Tasks and Organization of the Constitutional Jury, Submitted on the Second Thermidor [Second Thermidorian Intervention] ... 1707 Constitutional Observations ... 186Bibliography ... 195Index ... 202

Oliver W. Lembcke is professor of political science at Leipzig University (Germany). The main focus of his research interests are in the field of politcal theory, the history of political ideas, and legal politics. His publications include studies on constitutional courts, modern constitutionalism, and on the history of European political ideas during the 17th and 18th centuries.Florian Weber is a senior researcher in political theory at Jena University (Germany). His main fields of interest are the French Revolution and french constitutional thought. His publications include articles and books on Benjamin Constant and Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès.

• Foreword ... ixNote to the Reader ... xiAcknowledgements ... xiiIntroduction to Sieyès’s Political Theory ... 1Oliver W. Lembcke and Florian Weber1 What Is the Third Estate? ... 432 Reasoned Exposition of the Rights of Man and Citizen ... 1183 Controversy between Mr. Paine and M. Emmanuel Sieyès ... 1354 Of the Gains of Liberty in Society and in the Representative System ... 1445 Sieyès’s Views Concerning Several Articles of Sections IV and V of the Draft Constitution [First Thermidorian Intervention] .... 1526 The Opinion of Sieyès Concerning the Tasks and Organization of the Constitutional Jury, Submitted on the Second Thermidor [Second Thermidorian Intervention] ... 1707 Constitutional Observations ... 186Bibliography ... 195Index ... 202

Oliver W. Lembcke is professor of political science at Leipzig University (Germany). The main focus of his research interests are in the field of politcal theory, the history of political ideas, and legal politics. His publications include studies on constitutional courts, modern constitutionalism, and on the history of European political ideas during the 17th and 18th centuries.Florian Weber is a senior researcher in political theory at Jena University (Germany). His main fields of interest are the French Revolution and french constitutional thought. His publications include articles and books on Benjamin Constant and Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès.

• Foreword ... ixNote to the Reader ... xiAcknowledgements ... xiiIntroduction to Sieyès’s Political Theory ... 1Oliver W. Lembcke and Florian Weber1 What Is the Third Estate? ... 432 Reasoned Exposition of the Rights of Man and Citizen ... 1183 Controversy between Mr. Paine and M. Emmanuel Sieyès ... 1354 Of the Gains of Liberty in Society and in the Representative System ... 1445 Sieyès’s Views Concerning Several Articles of Sections IV and V of the Draft Constitution [First Thermidorian Intervention] .... 1526 The Opinion of Sieyès Concerning the Tasks and Organization of the Constitutional Jury, Submitted on the Second Thermidor [Second Thermidorian Intervention] ... 1707 Constitutional Observations ... 186Bibliography ... 195Index ... 202