However, unlike most of the works that Burke's work spawned in the ensuing Revolution Controversy, Godwin's did not address the specific political events of the day; it addressed the underlying philosophical principles.
Anna Laetitia Barbauld, a prolific writer admired by Samuel Johnson and William Wordsworth and wife of the minister at Newington Green, alluded to Burke's work and his opponents in her "Sins of the Government, Sins of the Nation" (1793).
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Many writers responded, defending the revolution in France, among them Thomas Paine, Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin.
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Paine, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States argued in Rights of Man that popular political revolution is permissible when a government does not safeguard its people, their natural rights, and their national interests.
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