The Rights of Man Part I (1791 ed.)

Paine’s pamphlet defending the early liberal phase of the French Revolution was written in response to Edmund Burke’s critique.

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Citation

Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke’s Attack on the French Revolution. (2nd edition) by Thomas Paine (London: J.S. Jordan, 1791).

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Edmund Burke (Author)

Paine represents the rationalist Enlightement arguemnt in favor of Revolution. While he and Burke agreed about the American cause, they broke profoundly over the justification of the French Revolution and carried on a long debate in which Burke directly addresses Paine's essays on The Rights of Man.
Mercy Otis Warren (Author)

In this work, Paine is placed in the context of the American Revolution by two important contemporary historians, Mercy Otis Warren and David Ramsay.

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It may with reason be said, that in the manner the English nation is represented, it signifies not where this right resides, whether in the Crown, or in the Parliament. War is the common harvest of all those who participate in the division and expenditure of public money, in all countries. It is…

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Paine’s ideas were deeply influenced by the English Radical Whigs of which Cato’s Letters are the preeeminent example.

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