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Rights of Man
Set of essays by Thomas Paine / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
For the album by The Wolfe Tones, see The Rights of Man (album).
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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Language | English |
Subject | The French Revolution |
Publication date | 1791 |
Publication place | Britain |
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It was published in two parts in March 1791 and February 1792.[2]