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Politics
The Rights of Man
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Paine’s defense of revolution, natural rights, representative government, and social reform.
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The Rights of Man
The Rights of Man responds to attacks on the French Revolution by defending popular sovereignty and political rights. Paine links liberty to institutional reform, arguing that government should protect people rather than inherited privilege.
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Thomas Paine died in 1809, and The Rights of Man was first published in 1791. These dates support the public-domain basis for this English original edition.
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The Rights of Man
Thomas Paine
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Being An Answer To Mr. Burke's Attack On The French Revoloution
By Thomas Paine
Secretary For Foreign Affairs To Congress In The American War, And Author Of The Works Entitled "Common Sense" And "A Letter To Abbe Raynal"
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George Washington
President Of The United States Of America
Sir,
I present you a small treatise in defence of those principles of freedom which your exemplary virtue hath so eminently contributed to establish. That the Rights of Man may become as universal as your benevolence can wish, and that you may enjoy the happiness of seeing the New World regenerate the Old, is the prayer of
Sir,
Your much obliged, and
Obedient humble Servant,
Thomas Paine
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- 01Full text
- 02RIGHTS OF MAN
- 03DEDICATION
- 04PAINE'S PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION
- 05PAINE'S PREFACE TO THE FRENCH EDITION
- 06RIGHTS OF MAN. PART THE FIRST BEING AN ANSWER TO MR. BURKE'S ATTACK ON
- 07THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
- 08RIGHTS OF MAN. PART SECOND, COMBINING PRINCIPLE AND PRACTICE.
- 09FRENCH TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE.
- 10PREFACE
- 11RIGHTS OF MAN PART II.
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