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	University of Minnesota Human Rights Library
		Rights and duties are interrelated in every social and political activity of man. While rights exalt individual liberty, duties express the dignity of that liberty.
		The right to an education includes the right to equality of opportunity in every case, in accordance with natural talents, merit and the desire to utilize the resources that the state or the community is in a position to provide.
		The rights of man are limited by the rights of others, by the security of all, and by the just demands of the general welfare and the advancement of democracy.
	hei.unige.ch /humanrts/oasinstr/zoas2dec.htm (1718 words)

	The Rights of Man by Thomas Paine
		If a dispute about the rights of man had arisen at the distance of an hundred years from the creation, it is to this source of authority they must have referred, and it is to this same source of authority that we must now refer.
		Man did not enter into society to become worse than he was before, nor to have fewer rights than he had before, but to have those rights better secured.
		Of this kind are all the intellectual rights, or rights of the mind, and also all those rights of acting as an individual for his own comfort and happiness, which are not injurious to the natural rights of others.
	www.ushistory.org /paine/rights/singlehtml.htm (19309 words)

	Thom Hartmann's "Independent Thinker" Book of the Month: Rights of Man by Thomas Paine
		"Rights of Man" by Thomas Paine was written as an answer to a correspondence and debate Paine was having with Sir Edmund Burke, the famous British nobleman who is revered by modern conservatives (Russell Kirk, Barry Goldwater, William F. Buckley, Jr.) as the founder of modern conservative thought.
		He was initially fortunate to be in France, as during this time "Rights Of Man" was published in England, and the book was considered so radical that he was put on trial and convicted in absentia for seditious libel against the Crown.
		"Rights of Man" by Thomas Paine is one of the foundational and seminal documents of modern liberalism.
	www.buzzflash.com /hartmann/05/05/har05005.html (2913 words)

	Declaration Rights of Man
		The aim of all political association is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man. These rights are liberty, property, security, and resistance to oppression.
		The free communication of ideas and opinions is one of the most precious of the rights of man. Every citizen may, accordingly, speak, write, and print with freedom, but shall be responsible for such abuses of this freedom as shall be defined by law.
		All the citizens have a right to decide, either personally or by their representatives, as to the necessity of the public contribution; to grant this freely; to know to what uses it is put; and to fix the proportion, the mode of assessment and of collection and the duration of the taxes.
	www.age-of-the-sage.org /philosophy/rights_of_man.html (835 words)

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		THE RIGHTS OF MAN by Christopher Dawson [Editorial Note: The series of chapters from which this one on "The Rights of Man" was taken, were written between 1936 and 1939, consisting of three chapters on the Enlightenment and five on the French Revolution.
		Yet they were always ready to justify their opposition in the name of liberty and the rights of the subject, so that while on the one hand they appealed to the nobility as the defenders of privilege, on the other they appealed to the lawyers and the bourgeoisie as the defenders of constitutional right.
		The Declaration of the Rights of Man made it the official creed of the French Revolution and gave the political and economic discontent of the French people a philosophical or rather theological basis on which a new social order could be based.
	www.ewtn.com /library/HOMELIBR/DAWRTMAN.TXT (4012 words)

	Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, 1789 [France]
		Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, 1789 [France]
		Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citzen
		They further have the right to grant the tax freely, to watch over how it is used, and to determine its amount[4], the basis for its assessment and of its collection, and its duration.
	www.magnacartaplus.org /french-rights/1789.htm (1084 words)

	THE RIGHTS OF MAN - Archiving Early America
		The Rights of Man was published in two parts.
		The Rights of Man became an underground manifesto, passed from hand to hand, even when it became a crime to be found with it in one's possession.
		By the time he settled into writing The Rights of Man, he did so with hindsight and deliberately set out to write a document that would shake the whole fabric of England.
	www.earlyamerica.com /earlyamerica/writings/rights (675 words)

	Amazon.com: Rights of Man: Books: Thomas Paine,Gregory Claeys (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Usually property rights in monarchial nations were written to favor the wealthy and powerful, and grant them priveleges at the expense of the populace.
		"Rights of Man" (1791-92) is Thomas Paine's famous response to Edmund Burke's "Reflections on the Revolution of France" (1790).
		The Rights of Man is a riposte to Edmund Burke's criticism of the French Revolution.
	www.amazon.com /Rights-Man-Thomas-Paine/dp/0872201473 (2497 words)

	Paine, The Rights of Man Parts I and II (1791-92): The Online Library of Liberty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Speech is, in the first place, one of the natural rights of man always retained; and with respect to the National Assembly the use of it is their duty, and the nation is their authority.
		Many of the facts were in themselves principles; such as the declaration of American Independence, and the treaty of alliance between France and America, which recognised the natural rights of man, and justified resistance to oppression.
		Man cannot, properly speaking, make circumstances for his purpose, but he always has it in his power to improve them when they occur, and this was the case in France.
	oll.libertyfund.org /Texts/Paine0030/RightsOfMan/0525_Bk.html (18386 words)

	Thomas Paine: Rights of Man, Part 1
		He was not the diplomatic of a Court, but of MAN. His character as a philosopher had been long established, and his circle of society in France was universal.
		The Parliaments on their part insisted that they had not only a right to remonstrate, but to reject; and on this ground they were always supported by the nation.
		The persons composing this Court were to be nominated by the King; the contended right of taxation was given up on the part of the King, and a new criminal code of laws and law proceedings was substituted in the room of the former.
	www.constitution.org /tp/rightsman1.htm (19485 words)

	Jefferson on Politics & Government: Securing Rights
		The purpose of government is to maintain a society which secures to every member the inherent and inalienable rights of man, and promotes the safety and happiness of its people.
		This, like all other natural rights, may be abridged or modified in its exercise by their own consent, or by the law of those who depute them, if they meet in the right of others." --Thomas Jefferson: Opinion on Residence Bill, 1790.
		It were contrary to feeling and indeed ridiculous to suppose that a man had less rights in himself than one of his neighbors, or all of them put together.
	etext.lib.virginia.edu /jefferson/quotations/jeff0150.htm (1184 words)

	Thomas Paine: Rights of Man, Prefaces
		Prefaces to the Rights of Man, by Thomas Paine
		Burke took in the American Revolution, it was natural that I should consider him a friend to mankind; and as our acquaintance commenced on that ground, it would have been more agreeable to me to have had cause to continue in that opinion than to change it.
		There ought not now to exist any doubt that the peoples of France, England, and America, enlightened and enlightening each other, shall henceforth be able, not merely to give the world an example of good government, but by their united influence enforce its practice.
	www.constitution.org /tp/rightsman_pre.htm (1145 words)

	Tom Paine
		Paine suggested that all men over twenty-one in Britain should be given the vote and this would result in a House of Commons willing to pass laws favourable to the majority.
		It is not, and from its nature cannot be, the property of any particular man or family, but the whole community.
		His duty to God, which every man must feel; and with respect to his neighbour, to do as he would be done by.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /PRpaine.htm (1349 words)

	The Avalon Project : Declaration of the Rights of Man - 1789
		The Avalon Project : Declaration of the Rights of Man - 1789
		Declaration of the Rights of Man - 1789
		Approved by the National Assembly of France, August 26, 1789
	www.yale.edu /lawweb/avalon/rightsof.htm (706 words)

	The Session: Tunes - The Rights Of Man (hornpipe)
		The Session >> Tunes >> The Rights Of Man (hornpipe)
		The Rights Of Man The Concert For Joseph Doherty by Various Artists
		Has anybody done an ABC transcription of Paddy Canny's highly unusual version of "The Rights of Man"?
	www.thesession.org /tunes/display.php/83 (600 words)

	Amazon.com: Rights of Man (Penguin Classics): Books: Thomas Paine,Henry Collins,Eric Foner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Amazon.com: Rights of Man (Penguin Classics): Books: Thomas Paine,Henry Collins,Eric Foner
		First tag: american history (Steven C Baker on Nov 28, 2006)
		F Gori "Jeffersonian libertarian" (Manteca, ca United States) - See all my reviews
	www.amazon.com /Rights-Penguin-Classics-Thomas-Paine/dp/0140390154 (2467 words)

	The Rights of Man by Thomas Paine - Free eBook
		The Rights of Man by Thomas Paine - Free eBook
		s as happy a man as any in the world.
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	manybooks.net /titles/painethoetext03twtp210.html (202 words)

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