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Postal Policy - The Nervous System of the Republic
In 17 90, benjamin rush and james madison were political philosophers. They realized that a democracy requires knowledgeable voters. So they devised this kind of robin hood scheme to use the very costly postage for letter mail. The money subsidized mailing cheap, uncensored newspapers to every citizen. This was considered a wildly radical in europe.
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