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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... established , the state of Pennsylvania , conceiving that some parts of its own constitution required to be altered , elected a convention for that purpose . The proposed alterations were published , and the people concurring therein ...
... established , the state of Pennsylvania , conceiving that some parts of its own constitution required to be altered , elected a convention for that purpose . The proposed alterations were published , and the people concurring therein ...
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... established , or if established , would soon be overthrown . It is never to be expected in a revolution , that every man is to change his opinion at the same moment . There never yet was any truth or any princi- ple so irresistibly ...
... established , or if established , would soon be overthrown . It is never to be expected in a revolution , that every man is to change his opinion at the same moment . There never yet was any truth or any princi- ple so irresistibly ...
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... established under charters and statutes which restricted their options , or in charity schools established in the first half of the eighteenth century . In both cases the numbers educated were limited . 302 Chelsea College pensioners ...
... established under charters and statutes which restricted their options , or in charity schools established in the first half of the eighteenth century . In both cases the numbers educated were limited . 302 Chelsea College pensioners ...
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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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