 In her defense of equality, Sophie de Grouchy considers the problems brought about by inequality of status, privileges, and wealth and the way in which the law contributes to these problems by maintaining privileges. She is in agreement with the principles debated in the early days of the French revolution, in particular by Emmanuel Sieyès who argued that to be unequal in the eyes of the law is to be potentially dominated. That is, a citizen can use a privileged relationship to the law to abuse another. Grouchy argues that this was one the greatest wrongs of the Ancient Régime, i.e., when the law is not applied equally to all, those who cannot manipulate it perceive themselves as dominated: