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Thomas Paine's answer to four questions on the legislative and executive powers

1791-07 Subjects: Law, Politics and government Forms: Essays Translation Status: Source-text English

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Réponse de Thomas Paine à quatre questions sur les pouvoirs législatif et exécutif. Traduit sur le manuscrit par Condorcet translation

Notes

Manuscript text, now lost, from which Condorcet established his French translation. Conway dates the finished manuscript to July 1791. Some passages are very similar to Rights of Man part 2 which Paine was writing around the same time. See Conway, The writings of Thomas Paine, vol. II.