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📘 Political writings by Mary Wollstonecraft

In a vigorous reply to Edmund Burke’s *Reflections on the Revolution in France*, Mary Wollstonecraft presents her first major political treatise. She rejects Burke’s claim that liberty is an "entailed inheritance" and that only men of permanent property can justly exercise civil authority. Instead, Wollstonecraft argues that every human being possesses inherent rights as a rational creature, and that civil power should not be restricted by property or gender. The pamphlet underscores her pioneering feminist stance, linking the principles of liberty and equality to broader human and women's rights.

First publish date: 1790

Genre: Politics & Government/Political Theory

Authors: Mary Wollstonecraft

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