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Philp, Mark (2019) Paine and socioeconomic rights. French History, 33 (4). pp. 554-571. doi:10.1093/fh/crz092 ISSN 0269-1191.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/fh/crz092
Abstract
This article focuses on Thomas Paine’s Agrarian Justice (1796–7). It argues that it represents a major development in his thinking linking social and economic rights to liberty and seeing positive and negative rights as closely connected. It locates the impetus for these changes in doctrine to his working out of the implications of the principle of generational sovereignty in relation to his developing case for universal manhood suffrage, against the background of discussions of the Directory Constitution of 1795. This account emphasizes the developing character of Paine’s thought and its increasing subtlety as he ties social and economic rights into an account of the pacific character of commercial society, thereby combining economic liberalism with a significant dimension of egalitarianism.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Subjects: | J Political Science > JC Political theory | ||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > History | ||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809. Justice agraire opposée à la loi et monopole agraire. English, Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809 -- Political and social views, Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809 -- Criticism and interpretation, Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809 -- Philosophy, Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809. Rights of man | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | French History | ||||||
Publisher: | Oxford University Press | ||||||
ISSN: | 0269-1191 | ||||||
Official Date: | December 2019 | ||||||
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Volume: | 33 | ||||||
Number: | 4 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 554-571 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1093/fh/crz092 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced version of an article accepted for publication in French History following peer review. The version of record Mark Philp, Paine and Socioeconomic Rights, French History, , crz092, is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1093/fh/crz092 | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 24 June 2019 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 3 January 2022 | ||||||
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