1795 THOMAS PAINE. Dissertation on the First Principles of Government + First Edition Speech. Rare. Prayer and Prayer Meetings For the Villager [on the

For the Villager [on the evils of grasping after wealth]

Because of his legal work as a prominent banker and MP

He was at first an Arminian

Jones's Multiplying and Equalizing Bee-Hive

Three Volumes Bound in Two

1795 THOMAS PAINE. Dissertation on the First Principles of Government + First Edition Speech. Rare. Prayer and Prayer Meetings For the Villager [on theWritten 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