Rights of Man
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).
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| Author | Thomas Paine |
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| Country | Britain |
| Language | English |
| Subject | The French Revolution |
Publication date | 1791 |
It was published in two parts in March 1791 and February 1792.
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