Rights of Man
Set of essays by Thomas Paine / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Not to be confused with Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (1789), A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790) by Mary Wollstonecraft, or The Rights of Man (1940) by H. G. Wells.
Rights of Man (1791), a book by Thomas Paine, including 31 articles, posits that popular political revolution is permissible when a government does not safeguard the natural rights of its people. Using these points as a base it defends the French Revolution against Edmund Burke's attack in Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790).[1]
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Author | Thomas Paine |
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Country | Britain |
Language | English |
Subject | The French Revolution |
Publication date | 1791 |
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It was published in two parts in March 1791 and February 1792.[2]