Rights of Man
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).
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| Author | Thomas Paine |
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| Language | English |
| Subject | The French Revolution |
Publication date | 1791 |
| Publication place | Britain |
Rights of Man is a book by Thomas Paine first published in 1791, including 31 articles, positing 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 Britain in two parts in March 1791 and February 1792.
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