Answering Burke, Paine defends the French Revolution and every generation's natural right to govern itself.
Books mentioned in Rights of Man (2)
The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith: “Had Mr. Burke possessed talents similar to the author of "On the Wealth of Nations." he would have comprehended all the parts which enter into, and, by assemblage, form a constitution.”
The History of the Public Revenue of the British Empire by John Sinclair: “These statements and those which follow, are taken from Sir John Sinclair's History of the Revenue; by which it appears, that taxes continued decreasing for four hundred years”
Books that mention Rights of Man (6)
The Art of Public Speaking by Dale Carnegie & J. Berg Esenwein: “My country is the world, and my religion is to do good. --PAINE, _Rights of Man_.”
Tono-Bungay by H. G. Wells: “So I read and understood the good sound rhetoric of Tom Paine's "Rights of Man," and his "Common Sense," excellent books, once praised by bishops and since sedulously lied about.”
Billy Budd by Herman Melville: “a staunch admirer of Thomas Paine, whose book in rejoinder to Burke’s arraignment of the French Revolution had then been published for some time”
Felix Holt, the Radical by George Eliot: “Thus Treby Magna, which had lived quietly through the great earthquakes of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic wars, which had remained unmoved by the "Rights of Man," and saw little in Mr.”
Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow: “Their relationship had foundered in 1791 when Jefferson lauded The Rights of Man by Thomas Paine by drawing an invidious contrast to the “political heresies which have sprung up among us.””
Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow: “In 1791 he published The Rights of Man as a response to Edmund Burke’s influential denunciation, Reflections on the Revolution in France.”