Understanding Cato’s Letters (Part One)
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The History of Cato's Letters
Cato's letters were popular in the early part of the 18th century. A young Benjamin Franklin was writing about free speech under the pseudonym Silence Doogood. Thomas Jefferson has them as an influence. By the 1770s, John Adams admits that they're a popular reading.
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