Rights of Man: Common Sense ; and Other Political WritingsOxford University Press, 1995 - 504 páginas 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 defence of the French Revolution and sent out a clarion call for revolution throughout the world. He paid the price for his principles: he was outlawed in Britain, narrowly escaped execution in France, and was villified as an atheist and a Jacobin on his return to America. Paine loathed the unnatural inequalities fostered by the hereditary and monarchical systems. He believed that government must be by and for the people and must limit itself to the protection of their natural rights. But he was not a libertarian: from a commitment to natural rights he generated one of the first blueprints for a welfare state, combining a liberal order of civil rights with egalitarian constraints. This collection brings together Paine's most powerful political writings from the American and French revolutions in the first fully annotated edition of these works. |
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... jury of twelve men is not competent to decide . Where there are no witnesses to be examined , no facts to be proved , and where the whole matter is before the whole public , and the merits or demerits of it resting on their opinion ...
... jury of twelve men is not competent to decide . Where there are no witnesses to be examined , no facts to be proved , and where the whole matter is before the whole public , and the merits or demerits of it resting on their opinion ...
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... Jury to be sworn to truth and justice , himself having officially sworn the same ; then causing to be read a prosecution against a man , charging him with having wickedly and maliciously written and published a certain false , wicked ...
... Jury to be sworn to truth and justice , himself having officially sworn the same ; then causing to be read a prosecution against a man , charging him with having wickedly and maliciously written and published a certain false , wicked ...
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... Jury with a dinner , and afterwards giving each Juryman two guineas , if a verdict be found for the prosecution , and only one if otherwise ; and it has been long observed , that in London and Westminster there are persons who appear to ...
... Jury with a dinner , and afterwards giving each Juryman two guineas , if a verdict be found for the prosecution , and only one if otherwise ; and it has been long observed , that in London and Westminster there are persons who appear to ...
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COMMON SENSE I | 28 |
AMERICAN CRISIS XIII | 72 |
RIGHTS OF MAN Part the Second | 199 |
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Rights of Man, Common Sense, and Other Political Writings Thomas Paine Pré-visualização limitada - 1998 |
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