Rights of Man Fully Annotated Edition
- ISBN-10
- ISBN-13
- 9798739476180
- Pages
- 294
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2021-04-17
- Author
- Thomas Paine
Description
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).It was published in two parts in March 1791 and February 1792.
