Rights of Man by Thomas Paine Author:Standalone Books
(1790)Collected And Edited By Moncure Daniel ConwayWritten by Thomas Paine (1737-1809), English author, pamphleteer, radical, inventor, intellectual, revolutionary, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Rights of Man is a defence of the French Revolution, and posits that popular political revolution is permissible when a government does not safeguard its people, their natural rights, and their national interests.
- Introduction and Preface
- Rights of Man Part the First
- Observations on the Declaration of Rights
- Rights of Man Part the Second
- Ch. 1: Of Society and Civilisation
- Ch. 2: Of the Origin of the Present Old Governments
- Ch. 3: Of the Old and New Systems of Government
- Ch. 4: Of Constitutions
- Ch. 5: Improving the Condition of Europe
- Appendix
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