The Rights of Man by Thomas Paine

In RIGHTS OF MAN, American founding father and patriot Thomas Paine expounds the Lockean notions of natural rights and the social contract. Paine argues that popular revolutions, like the American and French Revolutions, are just and legal when governments fail to protect the natural rights of the people, fails to protect the people, or look after their national interests. RIGHTS OF MAN was written in response to Edmund Burke's attack on the French Revolution in REFLECTIONS ON THE REVOLUTION IN FRANCE.