The Rights of Man by Thomas Paine (1791)
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The post shares a link to Thomas Paine's 'The Rights of Man' (1791) on Project Gutenberg, sparking a quiet interest in a foundational political text.
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tencentshill
3 months ago
It's somewhat comforting to know we've dealt with troublesome authoritarians and their tired old rhetoric for hundreds of years, and democracy still eventually prevailed. The US nation is still so young, we had to try authoritarianism eventually.
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