DOWNLOAD The Rights of Man

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The
Rights
of
Man
Description
An army of principles will penetrate where an
army of soldiers
cannotit will march on the horizon of the world
and it will conquer Thomas Paine was one of the
earliest international revolutionaries
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His Rights of Man was the most renowned defence
of the French Revolution and it served as a
worldwide rallying cry for revolution He was
prohibited in Britain nearly spared execution in
France and was condemned as an atheist and a
Jacobin upon his return to America for his
beliefs Paine believed that government should be
run by and for the people and that it should be
limited to safeguarding their natural rights He
created one of the earliest welfare state plans
combining a liberal civil rights system with
egalitarian restrictions