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Rights of man,
The title of Thomas Paine's famous reply to Edmund Burke's Reflections on the French Revolution.
It was issued in England, and had an immense sale.
It was translated into French, and won for the author a seat in the French National Assembly.
Thomas Jefferson, then Secretary of State, had come from France filled with the radical ideas of the French Revolutionists, and thought he saw, in the coolness of the President and others, a sign of decaying republicanism in America.
The essays of Adams, entitled Discourses on Davila, disgusted him, and he believed that Adams, Hamilton, Jay, and others were plotting for the establishment of a monarchy in the United States.
To thwart these fancied designs and to inculcate the doctrines of the French Revolution, Jefferson hastily printed in America, and circulated, Paine's Rights of man, which had just been received from England.
It was originally dedicated to the President of the United States.
It inculcated principles co