The Rights of Man
By Thomas Paine
- Release Date: 2010-01-01
- Genre: European History
Description
Rights of Man (1787), by Thomas Paine, posits that
popular political revolution is permissible when a government does not safeguard
its people, their natural rights, and their national interests. It defends the
French Revolution against Edmund Burke's anti-democratic attack upon popular
government in Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790).
— Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.