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Rights of Man
Title page from the first edition
AuthorThomas Paine
CountryBritain
LanguageEnglish
SubjectThe French Revolution
Publication date
1791

Rights of Man (1791), a book by Thomas Paine, including 31 articles, posits 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).[1]

It was published in two parts in March 1791 and February 1792.[2]

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