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Thomas Payne is a legendary Anglo-American political icon: an emotional activist, an unquestioning, uncompromisingly controversial speaker, and a revolutionary activist, whose writings have given the spirit of the century one…

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Thomas Payne is a legendary Anglo-American political icon: an emotional activist, an unquestioning, uncompromisingly controversial speaker, and a revolutionary activist, whose writings have given the spirit of the century one of the most important political events of the eighteenth century, the American and French revolutions. Although historians have been widely recognized as one of the most important writers, speakers, activists, commentators and political actors of his time, the philosophical content of his writings has been almost completely ignored.

This book takes the political philosophy of Payne seriously. Explores his views on a number of permanent issues in modern political thought, including the causes and limits of political commitment.

The nature of representative democracy; the justification for ownership of private property; International relations; and the relationship between secular liberalism and religion. It appears that Payne offers a distinct and philosophical account of liberalism and the theory of human rights that is our predecessor..



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