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Author : George Sausser Yingling
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (651 download)
Download or read book The Rights of Man as Understood by Thomas Jefferson written by George Sausser Yingling and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : M.L. Burstein
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349131156
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (491 download)
Download or read book Understanding Thomas Jefferson written by M.L. Burstein and published by Springer. This book was released on 1993-06-18 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Supplies extensive material making it possible for the reader to understand how Thomas Jefferson's mind spanned the vast distance separating antiquity from writers like William James and Sigmund Freud, analyzing his studies in economics, moral philosophy, history and law.
Author : Robert Curry
Publisher : Encounter Books
ISBN 13 : 1594038260
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (94 download)
Download or read book Common Sense Nation written by Robert Curry and published by Encounter Books. This book was released on 2015-11-24 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” This sentence is perfectly familiar. We know it as a core principle of our founding. But few, if any of us consider why Jefferson wrote it in exactly this way. Why “unalienable rights” and not simply rights? Why “self-evident” truths and not simply truths? Why does the Declaration make these distinctions? Do they really matter? If these questions are challenging or Jefferson’s words seem esoteric, it is because we no longer conduct our politics in the language of the Founders and we are no longer able to think as they once thought. In Congress and the media, political arguments are advanced by a torrent of policy studies and “expert” opinions—not on the basis of self-evident truths, unalienable rights, and definitely not in the language of the Founders. Common Sense Nation is a potent re-introduction to the political ideas of the Founders—in their own words and on their terms. It is dedicated to the proposition that the only way to fully unlock the profound and distinctive power of American self-government is to understand it as its inventors did. Common Sense Nation reclaims the language of liberty from entities that prefer to interpret our freedoms for us. For in knowing the Founders as they knew themselves, readers will learn the surprising depths of their own political powers as American citizens.
Author : Christopher Hitchens
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802143839
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Thomas Paine's Rights of Man written by Christopher Hitchens and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2008-09 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Paine's "Rights of Man" has been celebrated, criticized, maligned, suppressed, and co-opted, but Hitchens marvels at its forethought and revels in its contentiousness. In this book, he demonstrates how Paine's book forms the philosophical cornerstone of the U.S.
Author : Thomas Paine
Publisher : Tebbo
ISBN 13 : 9781743472071
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)
Download or read book The Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings - The Original Classic Edition written by Thomas Paine and published by Tebbo. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an unrelenting quest to understanding the history of the United States, one obscure name comes to mind, Thomas Paine. Paine helped establish the meaning of democracy and the 'united' in United States. His monumental work, RIGHTS OF MAN, provided the philosophical and rhetorical building blocks that the founding fathers, such as Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin, et al., would emulate with the writing of the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights. Many take for granted the origins of freedom and democracy in the United States, and as with many school history textbooks depict, Paine merely appears in a paragraph or two, and quickly disappears to historical oblivion. Nevertheless, when one reads RIGHTS OF MAN: AND OTHER ESSENTIAL WRITINGS OF THOMAS PAINE, there will be no doubt how significant his philosophical and political writings transformed the political structure of the colonies. Although this may sound somewhat romanticized, Paine's words ignited the energy for the colonists to free themselves from the tyrannical-monarchical leadership of England's King George III. With all the talk of Paine being a founding father, he may also be considered the father of revolution, American Revolution and French Revolution, and human rights. Without the inspiration from his friend Edmund Burke, author of REFLECTIONS ON THE REVOLUTION IN FRANCE, Paine may not have been able to write the pamphlet Rights of Man. Indeed, his power of the written word translated to revolutionary action, and Jeffersonian ideology. For RIGHTS OF MAN, he proposed possible solutions toward poverty, and created a blueprint towards achieving social and political institutions through his written abstracts. The other essential writings include the pamphlets, THE CRISIS, part one of THE AGE OF REASON, and selections of AGRARIAN JUSTICE. These writings gives readers an idea the political and religious atmosphere in which Paine lived, and how 'breaking ties' with the so-called 'motherland' was necessary towards forging a free nation. RIGHTS OF MAN is indeed accessible with its pocketbook size form. After reading the book, readers may have a better understanding of what it takes to build a nation. Paine's words are lessons of history and humanity, and is definitely recommendable reading.
Author : Thomas Jefferson
Publisher : Wyatt North Publishing, LLC
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book The Jefferson Bible written by Thomas Jefferson and published by Wyatt North Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-01-05 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Jefferson Bible, or The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth as it is formally titled, was a book constructed by Thomas Jefferson in the latter years of his life by cutting and pasting numerous sections from various Bibles as extractions of the doctrine of Jesus. Jefferson's composition excluded sections of the New Testament containing supernatural aspects as well as perceived misinterpretations he believed had been added by the Four Evangelists. In 1895, the Smithsonian Institution under the leadership of librarian Cyrus Adler purchased the original Jefferson Bible from Jefferson's great-granddaughter Carolina Randolph for $400. A conservation effort commencing in 2009, in partnership with the museum's Political History department, allowed for a public unveiling in an exhibit open from November 11, 2011, through May 28, 2012, at the National Museum of American History.
Author : Thomas Paine
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781500357023
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (57 download)
Download or read book The Rights of Man written by Thomas Paine and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-06-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rights of Man (1791), a book by Thomas Paine, including 31 articles, 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 it defends the French Revolution against Edmund Burke's attack in Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790).Paine was a very strong supporter of the French Revolution that began in 1789; he visited France the following year. Many English thinkers supported it, including Richard Price, who initiated the Revolution Controversy with his sermon and pamphlet drawing favourable parallels between the Glorious Revolution of 1688 and the French Revolution. Conservative intellectual Edmund Burke responded with a counter-revolutionary attack entitled Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790), which strongly appealed to the landed class and sold 30,000 copies.[3] Paine's Rights of Man was printed by Joseph Johnson for publication on 21 February 1791, then withdrawn for fear of prosecution. J. S. Jordan stepped in and published it on 16 March. The 90,000-word book appeared on 13 March, three weeks later than scheduled. It sold as many as one million copies and was "eagerly read by reformers, Protestant dissenters, democrats, London craftsman, and the skilled factory-hands of the new industrial north"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, and he takes the Bastille, the main prison in Paris, to symbolise the despotism that had been overthrown.Human rights originate in Nature, thus, rights cannot be granted via political charter, because that implies that rights are legally revocable, hence, would be privileges:It is a perversion of terms to say that a charter gives rights. It operates by a contrary effect-that of taking rights away. Rights are inherently in all the inhabitants; but charters, by annulling those rights, in the majority, leave the right, by exclusion, in the hands of a few ... They ... consequently are instruments of injustice ... The fact, therefore, must be that the individuals, themselves, each, in his own personal and sovereign right, entered into a contract with each other to produce a government: and this is the only mode in which governments have a right to arise, and the only principle on which they have a right to exist.Government's sole purpose is safeguarding the individual and his/her inherent, inalienable rights; each societal institution that does not benefit the nation is illegitimate-especially monarchy and aristocracy. The book's acumen derives from the Age of Enlightenment, especially from the Second Treatise of Government, by John Locke.The fuller development of this position seems to have been worked out one night in France after an evening spent with Thomas Jefferson, and possibly Lafayette, discussing a pamphlet by the Philadelphia conservative James Wilson on the proposed federal constitution.
Author : Garry Wills
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0385542836
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (855 download)
Download or read book Inventing America written by Garry Wills and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2017-02-15 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of America's foremost historians, Inventing America compares Thomas Jefferson's original draft of the Declaration of Independence with the final, accepted version, thereby challenging many long-cherished assumptions about both the man and the document. Although Jefferson has long been idealized as a champion of individual rights, Wills argues that in fact his vision was one in which interdependence, not self-interest, lay at the foundation of society. "No one has offered so drastic a revision or so close or convincing an analysis as Wills has . . . The results are little short of astonishing" —(Edmund S. Morgan, New York Review of Books)
Author : Thomas Paine
Publisher : Wilder Publications Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781604591354
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (913 download)
Download or read book The Rights of Man written by Thomas Paine and published by Wilder Publications Limited. This book was released on 2007-11 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Rights of Man, Thomas Paine defends the representational form of government. He posits that all men are born with God-given rights that cannot be taken from them by any government. Paine's position on inalienable rights played a major role in the Bill of Rights being included in the Constitution. This seminal work is as pertinent today as when it was first written.
Author : Annette Gordon-Reed
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 1631490788
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (314 download)
Download or read book "Most Blessed of the Patriarchs": Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination written by Annette Gordon-Reed and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2016-04-13 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestseller Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the San Francisco Chronicle Finalist for the George Washington Prize Finalist for the Library of Virginia Literary Award A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Selection "An important book…[R]ichly rewarding. It is full of fascinating insights about Jefferson." —Gordon S. Wood, New York Review of Books Hailed by critics and embraced by readers, "Most Blessed of the Patriarchs" is one of the richest and most insightful accounts of Thomas Jefferson in a generation. Following her Pulitzer Prize–winning The Hemingses of Monticello¸ Annette Gordon-Reed has teamed with Peter S. Onuf to present a provocative and absorbing character study, "a fresh and layered analysis" (New York Times Book Review) that reveals our third president as "a dynamic, complex and oftentimes contradictory human being" (Chicago Tribune). Gordon-Reed and Onuf fundamentally challenge much of what we thought we knew, and through their painstaking research and vivid prose create a portrait of Jefferson, as he might have painted himself, one "comprised of equal parts sun and shadow" (Jane Kamensky).
Author : Thomas Paine
Publisher : Joe Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1773911112
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (739 download)
Download or read book Rights of Man written by Thomas Paine and published by Joe Books Ltd. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reflection on and endorsement of the French Revolution, Thomas Paine's Rights of Man advances the theory of the inherency of human rights that cannot be conferred or revoked by governments, and examines the circumstances within which revolution against governments would be acceptable within the context of human rights. As a result of his groundbreaking opinions, Thomas Paine was tried and convicted of seditious libel against the Crown of England, but escaped a sentence of death because he was residing in France at the time. Be it mystery, romance, drama, comedy, politics, or history, great literature stands the test of time. ClassicJoe proudly brings literary classics to today's digital readers, connecting those who love to read with authors whose work continues to get people talking. Look for other fiction and non-fiction classics from ClassicJoe.
Author : Thomas Jefferson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Notes on the State of Virginia written by Thomas Jefferson and published by . This book was released on 1787 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Paine
Publisher : Standard Ebooks
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Rights of Man written by Thomas Paine and published by Standard Ebooks. This book was released on 2021-04-26T22:00:31Z with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Paine wrote the first part of The Rights of Man in 1791 as a response to the furious attack on the French Revolution by the British parliamentarian Edmund Burke in his pamphlet Reflections on the Revolution in France, published the previous year. Paine carefully dissects and counters Burke’s arguments and provides a more accurate description of the events surrounding the revolution of 1789. He then reproduces and comments on the “Declaration of the Rights of Man and of Citizens” promulgated by the National Assembly of France. The manuscript of The Rights of Man was placed with the publisher Joseph Johnson, but that publisher was threatened with legal action by the British Government. Paine then gave the work to another publisher, J. S. Jordan, and on the advice of William Blake, Paine went to France to be out of the way of possible arrest in Britain. The Rights of Man was published in March 1791, and was an immediate success with the British public, selling nearly a million copies. A second part of the book, subtitled “Combining Principle and Practice,” was published in February 1792. It puts forward practical proposals for the establishment of republican government in countries like Britain. The Rights of Man had a major impact, leading to the establishment of a number of reform societies. After the publication of the second part of the book, Paine and his publisher were charged with seditious libel, and Paine was eventually forced to leave Britain and flee to France. Today The Rights of Man is considered a classic of political writing and philosophy. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.
Author : Thomas PAINE
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1442916192
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (429 download)
Download or read book The Rights of Man (Volume 2 of 2) (EasyRead Super Large 24pt Edition) written by Thomas PAINE and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 1984 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Owen J. Anderson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107088186
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book The Declaration of Independence and God written by Owen J. Anderson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-18 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book studies the concept of a 'self-evident' God in American legal thought from the Revolution to the present.
Author : Alex Johnson
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1105559920
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (55 download)
Download or read book The Rights of Man written by Alex Johnson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Wolfe
Publisher : Enslow Publishing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 0766068838
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (66 download)
Download or read book Understanding the Bill of Rights written by James Wolfe and published by Enslow Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Secret societies. Spy networks. Rebellion. Revolution. All of these were precursors to one of the most influential political documents in history. The Bill of Rights consists of the first ten amendments of the United States Constitution, outlining the basic human rights awarded to every American citizen from birth. Read about the origins of the Bill of Rights, its creation, and the influence it still holds.
