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To conceal their identities the authors used the [[Roman]] statesman, [[Cato the Younger]], as an alias<ref>http://www.libertyfund.org/details.asp?displayID=1595</ref>. All 144 essays were published between 1720-1723; and in 1775, a two-volume modernized sixth edition of the ''Cato's Letters'' was printed in [[London]]. Many historians see these letters as the foundation of the philosophical foundation of the [[American Revolution]].
To conceal their identities the authors used the [[Roman]] statesman, [[Cato the Younger]], as an alias<ref>http://www.libertyfund.org/details.asp?displayID=1595</ref>. All 144 essays were published between 1720-1723; and in 1775, a two-volume modernized sixth edition of the ''Cato's Letters'' was printed in [[London]]. Many historians see these letters as the foundation of the philosophical foundation of the [[American Revolution]].
A public policy research organization founded in 1975, the [[CATO Institution]], was named after the letters<ref>http://www.libertyfund.org/details.asp?displayID=1595</ref>.
A public policy research organization founded in 1975, the [[CATO Institute]], was named after the letters<ref>http://www.libertyfund.org/details.asp?displayID=1595</ref>. The Cato Institute wrote,
{{Cquote|"The Cato Institute owes its name to Cato’s Letters, a series of essays published in 18th century [[Great Britain]] that presented a vision of a society free from the tyranny of excessive government power. Those same ideals inspired the architects of the American Revolution and continue to inspire the work of the Cato Institute today."<ref>http://www.cato.org/about/reports/annual_report_2005.pdf</ref>}}
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