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Rights of Man
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Thomas Paine’s defense of popular sovereignty, natural rights, and political reform in the age of revolution.
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Rights of Man
Rights of Man answers Edmund Burke with a direct argument for constitutional government, representative democracy, social rights, and the legitimacy of revolution against hereditary power. This edition highlights Paine’s plain political style and the transatlantic debate that shaped modern democratic language.
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Rights of Man
XIII The Rights of Man
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XIV The Rights of Man
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- 01Full text
- 02PART THE FIRST BEING AN ANSWER TO MR. BURKE'S ATTACK ON THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
- 03PART THE SECOND COMBINING PRINCIPLE AND PRACTICE
- 04XIII. RIGHTS OF MAN.
- 05EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION.
- 06RIGHTS OF MAN
- 07DEDICATION
- 08PAINE'S PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION
- 09PAINE'S PREFACE TO THE FRENCH EDITION
- 10RIGHTS OF MAN. PART THE FIRST BEING AN ANSWER TO MR. BURKE'S ATTACK ON THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
- 11OBSERVATIONS ON THE DECLARATION OF RIGHTS
- 12MISCELLANEOUS CHAPTER
- 13CONCLUSION
- 14END OF PART I.
- 15RIGHTS OF MAN. PART SECOND, COMBINING PRINCIPLE AND PRACTICE.
- 16FRENCH TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE.
- 17M. DE LA FAYETTE
- 18PREFACE
- 19THOMAS PAINE
- 20RIGHTS OF MAN PART II.
- 21INTRODUCTION.
- 22CHAPTER I. OF SOCIETY AND CIVILISATION
- 23CHAPTER II. OF THE ORIGIN OF THE PRESENT OLD GOVERNMENTS
- 24CHAPTER III. OF THE OLD AND NEW SYSTEMS OF GOVERNMENT
- 25CHAPTER IV. OF CONSTITUTIONS
- 26CHAPTER V. WAYS AND MEANS OF IMPROVING THE CONDITION OF EUROPE
- 27INTERSPERSED WITH MISCELLANEOUS OBSERVATIONS
- 28APPENDIX
- 29THE AUTHOR'S NOTES FOR PART ONE AND PART TWO
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