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The Rights of Man

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The Rights of Man (1791-92) by Thomas Paine is a political treatise defending the principles of the French Revolution and arguing that political authority comes from the people, not from monarchy or hereditary privilege. Paine asserts that all humans possess natural rights-such as liberty, equality, and freedom of conscience-which governments exist to protect. He criticizes aristocracy and inherited power as unjust and irrational, and promotes representative democracy, written constitutions...