The main body of this pamphlet is a reworking of Thomas Spence's lecture Property in Land Everyone's Right first published in Newcastle in 1775, eighteen years earlier. The fundamental text has stayed unchanged, as has the basic economic idea of the ownership of all land by parishes, but there is a new emphasis on social and political change.
- The original text assumed 'Parliament' would stay in place as the supreme political body, regardless of the economic changes The new text talks of 'House of Representatives' and 'Congress', on the American or French model, and includes checks on voting procedures inspired by the demands of the movement against parliamentary corruption.
- There is a new concern with the rights of people travelling between parishes or even countries, and the need to ensure that no-one could become parish-less. This is an attempt to block any recreation of the way in which the rural poor of the period were being shuffled between parishes, with each parish claiming that it had no duty to support sojourners from elsewhere.
- The clergy, supported by the parish, and the continued role for the Church of England, have disappeared from the text without comment.