Politics & Government · Political Theory
A topic within Political Theory, itself one of 14 topics in that field and part of Politics & Government.
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Rights of Man
Thomas Paine · 1791
Written against Burke's Reflections, argues that rights come from being human rather than from inherited precedent, so each generation may remake its…
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Second Treatise of Government
John Locke · 1689
Government is a trust created to protect pre-existing natural rights to life, liberty and property, and a government that violates that trust may be…
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Thomas Paine
Written against Burke's Reflections, argues that rights come from being human rather than from inherited precedent, so each generation may remake its own government rather than being bound by the arrangements of the dead.
about 6 hours to readlink checked 17 Sept 2026John Locke
Government is a trust created to protect pre-existing natural rights to life, liberty and property, and a government that violates that trust may be resisted.
about 4 hours to readlink checked 17 Sept 2026John Stuart Mill
Representative government is the best form of government not chiefly because it administers well, but because it is the only form that develops citizens' own capacities through the practice of participation.
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