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THE RIGHTS OF MAN THE FRENCH REVOLUTION - IDEAL...

Thomas Paine's Rights of Man is born from his need to defend social mutiny and it 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 Paine defends the French Revolution against
Edmund Burke's attack in Reflections on the Revolution in France. Paine argues that the
interests of the monarch and his people are united  and insists that the French Revolution
should be understood as one which attacks the despotic principles of the French monarchy  not
the king himself. Principally  Rights of Man opposes the idea of hereditary government - the
belief that dictatorial government is necessary  because of man's corrupt  essential nature.
Rights of Man concludes in proposing practical reformations of English government: a written
Constitution composed by a national assembly  in the American mould  the elimination of
aristocratic titles  because democracy is incompatible with primogeniture. Thomas Paine's
intellectual influence is perceptible in the two great political revolutions of the eighteenth
century. He dedicated Rights of Man to George Washington and to the Marquis de Lafayette 
acknowledging the importance of the American and the French revolutions in his formulating the
principles of modern democratic governance. Thomas Paine (1737-1809) was an English-American
political activist  philosopher  political theorist  and revolutionary. One of the Founding
Fathers of the United States  he authored the two most influential pamphlets at the start of
the American Revolution  and he inspired the rebels in 1776 to declare independence from
Britain. Paine's ideas reflected Enlightenment-era rhetoric of transnational human rights.

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