Thomas Paine part III: Rights of Man
Rights of man was the lengthiest of the works in the writings of Thomas Paine that I read. While Common Sense was more of a work on why American should be independent from England, Rights of Man was more an attack on hereditary monarchy itself. Even though it was written specifically to address the French Revolution and the case for it, the work is directed more towards a perpetual case for man’s right to government by consent of the governed and the right to revolution if he is denied this right.
This was the most challenging and yes, dry, of the … Continue Reading