Who used first time the term "Human Rights" in the English Translation of the French Declaration of the…
Thomas Paine, in Rights of Man (1791), used the term "human rights" in his English translation of the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, 1789. This…
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Who used first time the term "Human Rights" in the English Translation of the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen ?
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Thomas Paine, in Rights of Man (1791), used the term "human rights" in his English translation of the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, 1789. This is regarded as the first use of the term in English.
Maurice Cranston was a twentieth-century writer on human rights, and Plato wrote long before the term existed.
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