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Common Sense and Other Political Writings

Common Sense and Other Political Writings

Common Sense and Other Political Writings

Thomas Paine

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Wildside Press
Año de edición:
2025
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Política y gobierno
ISBN:
9781434458148
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Thomas Paine (1737-1809) was an English-American political activist, political theorist and theologian. As the author of highly influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution, 1776’s Common Sense and the series The American Crisis. His ideas reflected Enlightenment era rhetoric of transnational human rights. This volume also includes selections from Paine’s Rights of Man, written in light of the French Revolution.

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  • The American Crisis
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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 ari...
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