By Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine was once the impassioned democratic voice of the Age of Revolution, and this quantity brings jointly his best-known works: logic, the yankee predicament, Rights of guy, The Age of cause, besides a variety of letters, articles and pamphlets that emphasizes Paine's American years. “I be aware of now not even if any guy within the world,” wrote John Adams in 1805, “has had extra impression on its population or affairs for the final thirty years than Tom Paine.” The impassioned democratic voice of the Age of Revolution, Paine wrote for his mass viewers with energy, readability, and “common sense.” This Library of the USA quantity is the 1st significant new version of his paintings in 50 years, and the main complete single-volume choice of his writings on hand. Paine got here to the USA in 1774 at age 37 after a lifetime of obscurity and failure in England. inside of fourteen months he released logic, the main influential pamphlet for the yankee Revolution, and commenced a occupation that may see him prosecuted in England, imprisoned and approximately carried out in France, and hailed and reviled within the American state he helped create. In logic, Paine set forth an inspiring imaginative and prescient of an self sustaining the United States as an asylum for freedom and an instance of renowned self-government in a global oppressed through despotism and hereditary privilege. the yankee predicament, started in the course of “the occasions that attempt men’s souls” in 1776, is a masterpiece of renowned pamphleteering within which Paine vividly studies present advancements, name callings and ridicules British adversaries, and enjoins his readers to recollect the giant stakes in their fight. one of the different goods incorporated within the quantity are the combative “Forester” letters, written in a respond to a Tory critic of good judgment, and a number of other items about the French Revolution, together with an incisive argument opposed to executing Louis XVI. Rights of guy (1791–1792), written in accordance with Edmund Burke’s assaults at the French Revolution, is a daring imaginative and prescient of an egalitarian society based on average rights and unbound through culture. Paine’s specified inspiration for presidency counsel to the terrible encouraged generations of next radicals and reformers. The Age of cause (1794–1795), Paine’s such a lot debatable paintings, is an unrestrained attack at the authority of the Bible and a fervent safeguard of the benevolent God of deism. integrated during this quantity are an in depth chronology of Paine’s lifestyles, informative notes, an essay at the advanced printing heritage of Paine’s paintings, and an index.
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Alexander Solzhenitsyn had just been exiled from his country and his striking figure, adorned with beard and handcuffs, hypnotized Western intellectuals sick with a longing for the great destiny which had been denied them. It was only thanks to him that they started to believe, after a fifty-year delay, that in communist Russia there were concentration camps; even progressive people were now ready to admit that imprisoning someone for his opinions was not just. And they found an excellent justification for their new attitude: 16 Russian communists violated human rights, in spite of the fact that these rights had been gloriously proclaimed by the French Revolution itself!
Translated into over 300 languages, it has often been at the heart of demands made by peoples and individuals around the world that their rights be respected and protected. Several constitutions have taken its provisions as the basis for a bill of rights, and national and international courts have invoked the Declaration in their judgments. The member states of the UN have come to acknowledge that the Declaration, although not in the form of a binding legal instrument, does contain actual human rights obligations.
Yet, despite its important contribution to the protection of minority rights, the human rights protection offered under the League system was obviously limited to certain groups and certain countries. The League of Nations was also active in the protection of workers' rights. The goal of'fair and humane conditions of labour for men, women and children' was stated explicitly in the League Covenant. This goal became central to the work of the International Labour Organization (ILO), which continues today as one of the UN's specialized agencies.
