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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... Nation . Where then was the merited popularity of exalting this hereditary power over another hereditary power less independent of the Nation than what itself assumed to be , and of absorbing the rights of the Nation into a House over ...
... Nation . Where then was the merited popularity of exalting this hereditary power over another hereditary power less independent of the Nation than what itself assumed to be , and of absorbing the rights of the Nation into a House over ...
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... Nation is disposed to permit them . When Mr Burke , in a speech last Winter in the British Parliament , cast his ... Nation rendered the late Govern- ment insolvent , it did not permit the insolvency to act towards the creditors ; and ...
... Nation is disposed to permit them . When Mr Burke , in a speech last Winter in the British Parliament , cast his ... Nation rendered the late Govern- ment insolvent , it did not permit the insolvency to act towards the creditors ; and ...
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... nation only . The putting any individual as a figure for a nation is improper . The happiness of a nation is the superior object , and therefore the intention of an oath of allegiance ought not to be obscured by being figuratively taken ...
... nation only . The putting any individual as a figure for a nation is improper . The happiness of a nation is the superior object , and therefore the intention of an oath of allegiance ought not to be obscured by being figuratively taken ...
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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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