1795 THOMAS PAINE. Dissertation on the First Principles of Government + First Edition Speech. Rare. ZZArtwork Delivered in the North Presbyterian

Delivered in the North Presbyterian Church

And the notes show wear with some losses as seen in images

by Idella Haist

The sermon is inscribed "To the President

1795 THOMAS PAINE. Dissertation on the First Principles of Government + First Edition Speech. Rare. ZZArtwork Delivered in the North PresbyterianWritten 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