Rights of Man
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| Author | Thomas Paine |
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| Language | English |
| Subject | The French Revolution |
Publication date | 1791 |
| Publication place | Britain |
| Part of the Politics series |
| Republicanism |
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Rights of Man is a book by Thomas Paine first published in 1791, including 31 articles, positing 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).
It was published in Britain in two parts in March 1791 and February 1792.