ANSWER TO FOUR QUESTIONS ON THE LEGISLATIVE AND EXECUTIVE POWERS Philip Foner’s introduction: It is impossible to determine the exact date of the composition of this document, but it is very likely that it was started in the spring of 1791 and completed some time during the following summer. It was later translated by Condorcet […]
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To the Chairman of the Society for Promoting Constitutional Knowledge LONDON, May 12, 1792. The honorable patronage which the Society for Constitutional Information has repeatedly given to the works entitled Rights of Man renders it incumbent on me to communicate to them whatever relates to the progress of those works. A great number of letters
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Knowledge To the Chairman of the Society for Promoting Constitutional Knowledge LONDON, May, 1792. It is now upwards of eight years since I was a resident inhabitant of the town of Lewes. My situation among you as an officer of the revenue, for more than six years, enabled me to see into the numerous and
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ON THE PROSECUTION AGAINST THE SECOND PART OF RIGHTS OF MAN SIR:-As there can be no personal resentment between two strangers, I write this letter to you, as to a man against whom I have no animosity. You have, as Attorney-General, commenced a prosecution against me as the author of “Rights of Man.” Had not
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To J.S. Jordan February 16, 1792. SIR: For your satisfaction and my own, I send you the enclosed though I do not apprehend there will be any occasion to use it. If, in case there should, you will immediately send a line for me under cover to Mr. Johnson, St. Paul’s Church-Yard, who will forward
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From the original letter at the Morgan Library. London Febry 13th 1792 Sir An opportunity immediately offering, I have had a Doz Copies of my new work put up for the purpose (the work being not yet published) to present to you and Mr. Jefferson. I hope the fifty Copies which were sent to Portsmouth
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From the original letter at the Library of Congress. London Feby. 13 1792 Dear Sir Mr. Kenedy who brings this to N York, is on the point of setting out. I am therefore confined to time: I have enclosed six copies of my work for yourself in a parcel addressed to the President, and three
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The Author’s Notes FOR PART ONE AND PART TWO The main and uniform maxim of the judges is, the greater the truth the greater the libel. Since writing the above, two other places occur in Mr. Burke’s pamphlet in which the name of the Bastille is mentioned, but in the same manner. In the one
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Combining Principle And Practice To M. de la Fayette After an acquaintance of nearly fifteen years in difficult situations in America, and various consultations in Europe, I feel a pleasure in presenting to you this small treatise, in gratitude for your services to my beloved America, and as a testimony of my esteem for the
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To John Hall November 25, 1791 LONDON, MY OLD FRIEND: I am very happy to see a letter from you, and to hear that our Friends on the other side of the water are well. The Bridge has been put up, but being on wood butments they yielded, and it is now taken down. The
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THOUGHTS ON THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A MINT IN THE UNITED STATES. By THOMAS PAINE. THE price of machinery and the expence of labor are reserved to the conclusion. I proceed therefore to consider the Metals and the means of procuring them. I begin with Copper. — This Metal is of too little value and of
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From the original letter at the Library of Congress London Novr 2, 1791 Dear Sir I received your favour conveying a letter from Mr. Jefferson and the ans. to Publicola for which I thank you. I had John Adams in my mind when I wrote the pamphlet and it has hit as I expected. M.
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