Rights of Man

  • Rights of Man
    By Thomas Paine

    Presents Paine's political writings about the French revolutions.

  • Rights of Man
    By Thomas Paine

    Presents Paine's political writings about the French revolutions. No individual's writing better exemplifies this transformation of the language of social and political change than that of Thomas Paine (1737-1809).

  • Rights of Man
    By Mariana Assis

    The Participants Paine wrote Rights of Man as a direct, explicit response to statesman and political thinker Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France, a 1790 pamphlet and masterpiece of modern conservatism.

  • Rights of Man
    By Jason Xidias, Mariana Assis

    British-born political activist Thomas Paine wrote the 31 essays in Rights of Man in response to Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France, an attack on the outcomes of the French Revolution.

  • Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burkis Attack on the French Revolution
    By Thomas Paine

    The Rights of Man (1791), a book by Thomas Paine posits that popular political revolution is permissible when a government does not safeguard the natural rights of its people.

  • Rights of Man: Common Sense
    By Thomas Paine, Michael Foot

    Thomas Paine, though an Englishman by birth, was a distinguished public figure in both 18th-century France and the United States. The two books presented in this volume elaborate upon his political and social theories.

  • Rights of Man: Common Sense ; and Other Political Writings
    By Thomas Paine

    Thomas Paine was the first international revolutionary. His Common Sense (1776) was the most widely read pamphlet of the American Revolution; his Rights of Man (1791-2) was the most famous...

  • Rights of Man
    By Thomas Paine

    This work is a statement of the belief in humanity's potential to change the world for the better. It argues that people are born with a set of natural rights and that any society that violates those rights is flawed and should be changed.

  • Rights of Man: Thomas Paine (American History, Literature) [Annotated]
    By Thomas Paine

    Rights of Man posits that popular political revolution is permissible when a government does not safeguard the natural rights of its people.

  • Rights of Man
    By Thomas Paine

    "First published in 1791 (Part I) and 1792 (Part II), this edition is derived from the original books. As always, this edition is complete and unabridged.

  • Rights of Man
    By Thomas Paine

    Rights of Man Thomas Paine - Rights of Man posits that popular political revolution is permissible when a government does not safeguard the natural rights of its people.

  • Rights of Man
    By Thomas Paine

    The fact, therefore, must be that the individuals, themselves, each, in his own personal and sovereign right, entered into a contract with each other to produce a government: and this is the only mode in which governments have a right to ...

  • Rights of Man
    By Thomas Paine

    Advocating equality, meritocracy, and social responsibility in plain language, Thomas Paine galvanized tens of thousands of readers and changed the framework of political discourse with this text.