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mar 16, 1791 - Thomas Payne published The right of Man

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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).

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mar 16, 1791
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~ 234 years ago

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