1795 THOMAS PAINE. Dissertation on the First Principles of Government + First Edition Speech. Rare. ZZArtwork at the Brazen Serpent in

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1795 THOMAS PAINE. Dissertation on the First Principles of Government + First Edition Speech. Rare. ZZArtwork at the Brazen Serpent inWritten and published in July 1795, the Dissertation on the First Principles of Government abides as the culmination of Thomas Paine's thinking on democratic theory, in which he openly advocates for universal (though still male only) suffrage. Paine had just barely survived imprisonment during the French Reign of Terror, watched colleagues guillotined, and was retrieved in a desperately ill state by James Monroe. He recovered well enough to write this