"I read, I study, I examine, I listen, I reflect, and out of all this I try to form an idea into which I put as much common sense as I can." [1] - December 16, 1777, Marquis de Lafayette (age 20) On August 27th, 1789, the Marquis de Lafayette put forth his bill of rights,[2] The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, based on the American Declaration of Independence, at the National Assembly of France. …
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…struggle for change in England, 1381 - 1914 (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1984), p.357 8.Thomas Paine, from the Rights of Man, in Christopher Hampton, ed., A Radical Reader: The struggle for change in England, 1381 - 1914 (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1984), p. 355 9.Spartacus, 'Mary Wollstonecraft', online at http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Wwollstonecraft.htm as of 29th May, 2004. 10.Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792), in Janet Todd (ed.), A Wollstonecraft Anthology (Oxford: Polity Press, 1989; first published Indiana University Press, 1977), p. 88