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Thomas Paine and the Idea of Human Rights
Lamb, RobertCambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.Thomas Paine is a legendary Anglo-American political icon: a passionate, plain-speaking, relentlessly controversial, revolutionary campaigner, whose writings captured the zeitgeist of the two most significant political events of the eighteenth century, the American and French Revolutions. Though widely acknowledged by historians as one of the most important and influential pamphleteers, rhetoricians, polemicists and political actors of his age, the philosophical content of his writing has nevertheless been almost entirely ignored. This book takes Paine's political philosophy seriously. It explores his views concerning a number of perennial issues in modern political thought including the grounds for, and limits to, political obligation; the nature of representative democracy; the justification for private property ownership; international relations; and the relationship between secular liberalism and religion. It shows that Paine offers a historically and philosophically distinct account of liberalism and a theory of human rights that is a progenitor of our own.
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The genuine trial of Thomas Paine for a libel [electronic resource] : contained in the second part of Rights of Man, at Guildhall, London, Dec., 18, 1792, before Lord Kenyon and a special jury : together with the speeches at large of the Attorney-General and Mr. Erskine, and authentic copies of Mr. Paine's letters to the Attorney-General and others, on the subject of the prosecution
Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809London : Printed for J.S. Jordan, 1792.Online Making of Modern Law: Trials, 1600-1926 For assistance ask at the Stanford Law Library reference desk.
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Letter addressed to the addressers, on the proclamation. [electronic resource]
Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809New-York : --Printed by Thomas Greenleaf., --M, DCC, XC, III. [1793]
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Maps shewing the residence of Thomas Paine before, and at his death, 8th June 1809, at Greenwich in the City of New York : and also the house where he lived and the site of the building in which he died
Randel, John1864Detached from: Manual of the corporation of the city of New York, 1864. Oriented with north to the upper right.
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