Author: | Thomas Paine | ISBN: | 1230000281431 |
Publisher: | True North | Publication: | November 19, 2014 |
Imprint: | Language: | English |
Author: | Thomas Paine |
ISBN: | 1230000281431 |
Publisher: | True North |
Publication: | November 19, 2014 |
Imprint: | |
Language: | English |
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).
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).