The Conway Edition · Political Writings
Volume III — Rights of Man
“Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.”
The Rights of Man, Parts I and II (1791-1792); the Letter to the Addressers; the addresses to the French National Convention; the Dissertation on First Principles of Government; the Letter to George Washington (1796); and the late constitutional writings from the French period.
- A Citizen of America to the Citizens of Europe 1793.
- Address to the People of France Delivered to the National Convention, September 25, 1792.
- Agrarian Justice Opposed to Agrarian Law and to Agrarian Monopoly.
- Anti-Monarchal Essay For the Use of New Republicans, October 1792.
- Appeal to the Convention August 7, 1794, from the Luxembourg Prison.
- Dissertation on First Principles of Government Paris, 1795.
- Forgetfulness Reflections on the Recall of an American Minister.
- Letter to Danton May 6, 1793.
- Letter to George Washington Philadelphia, July 30, 1796.
- Letter to the Addressers On the Late Proclamation.
- Letters to Onslow Cranley June, 1792.
- Letters to the Citizens of the United States Eight letters, November 1802 - April 1803.
- Observations On the construction and operation of navies.
- On the Propriety of Bringing Louis XVI to Trial Read to the Convention, November 21, 1792.
- Plan of a Declaration of the Natural, Civil, and Political Rights of Man Submitted to the Convention's Constitutional Committee, 1793.
- Private Letter to President Jefferson October 1, 1800.
- Private Letters to Jefferson 1788-1789.
- Proposal That Louisiana Be Purchased September 1801.
- Reasons for Preserving the Life of Louis Capet January 15, 1793.
- Shall Louis XVI Have Respite? Speech to the Convention, January 19, 1793.
- The Constitution of 1795 Speech to the Convention, July 7, 1795.
- The Decline and Fall of the English System of Finance 1796.
- The Eighteenth Fructidor September 4, 1797.
- The Memorial to Monroe September 10, 1794.
- The Recall of Monroe 1797.
- The Republican Proclamation Posted on the Walls of Paris, July 1, 1791.
- To Mr. Secretary Dundas June 6, 1792.
- To Mr. Secretary Dundas (Second Letter) June 15, 1792.
- To the Abbe Sieyes On Monarchy and Republicanism, Paris, July 8, 1791.
- To the Attorney General On the Prosecution of Rights of Man, May 1792.
- To the Attorney General, on the Prosecution of Rights of Man Part Second November 11, 1792, Paris.
- To the Authors of "Le Republicain" Paris, July 1791.
- To the French Inhabitants of Louisiana September 22, 1804.
- To the Sheriff of the County of Sussex On the Lewes meeting, 1792.
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