《人的权利：驳柏克并论法国大革命与美国革命》是托马斯·潘恩最为成熟与系统化的政治思想作品，也是潘恩倡导“原则革命”最具影响力的作品——不是因为《常识》或《危机》，也不是因为后来的《理性时代》——恰恰就因为这部作品，英国政府决定以“法治”的方式来压制潘恩的“政治原则”，以煽动叛国罪对他加以逮捕并最终缺席定罪。相比于主要以美国革命和英美关系为背景的《常识》与《危机》，《人的权利》更加着眼于欧洲的政治与革命，其根本诉求在于推动英国议会改革和法国革命。本书分为两篇，第一篇直接针对柏克1790年《法国革命论》中的主要观点展开反击，并初步提出了作者基于权利论的宪法和政府原则体系，第二篇的理论论证色彩更加浓厚，并侧重将权利原则应用于制度实践和改革设计。

When Common Sense was published in January 1776, it sold, by some estimates, a stunning 150,000 copies in the colonies. What exactly made this pamphlet so appealing? This is a question not only about the state of mind of Paine's audience, but also about the role of public opinion and debate, the function of the press, and the shape of political culture in the colonies. This Broadview edition of Paine’s famous pamphlet attempts to reconstruct the context in which it appeared and to recapture the energy and passion of the dispute over the political future of the British colonies in North America. Included along with the text of Common Sense are some of the contemporary arguments for and against the Revolution by John Dickinson, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson; materials from the debate that followed the pamphlet's publication showing the difficulty of the choices facing the colonists; the Declaration of Independence; and the Pennsylvania Constitution of 1776.