GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

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: -Paine explored the idea that government based on true justice should support not only mankind’s natural rights (life, liberty, free speech, freedom of conscience) but also its civil rights (relating to security and protection).

Detailed explanation-3: -Emphasizing Paine’s American career, it brings together his best-known works-Common Sense, The American Crisis, Rights of Man, The Age of Reason-along with scores of letters, articles, and pamphlets. Paine came to America in 1774 at age 37 after a life of obscurity and failure in England.

Detailed explanation-4: -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).