GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

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BOOKS AND AUTHORS

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Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]

Who is the author of the book ‘The Right of Man’?

A	Thomas Hardy
B	Thomas Mann
C	Thomas Moore
D	Thomas Paine

Explanation:

Detailed explanation-1: -The correct answer is Thomas Paine . Rights of Man (1791), a book by Thomas Paine, including 31 articles, posits that popular political revolution is permissible when a government does not safeguard the natural rights of its people.

Detailed explanation-2: -Rights of Man (1791), a book by Thomas Paine, including 31 articles, posits that popular political revolution is permissible when a government does not safeguard the natural rights of its people.

Detailed explanation-3: -He was enraged by Edmund Burke’s attack on the uprising of the French people in his Reflections on the Revolution in France, and, though Paine admired Burke’s stand in favour of the American Revolution, he rushed into print with his celebrated answer, Rights of Man (March 13, 1791).

Detailed explanation-4: -Who wrote the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen? The Marquis de Lafayette, with the help of Thomas Jefferson, composed a draft of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen and presented it to the National Assembly on July 11, 1789.

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