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Cato inspired English political journalists [[John Trenchard]] and [[Thomas Gordon]] to publish anonymously ''Cato's Letters" (1720-23). These were 138 letters or short essays that expounded on republicanism and which greatly influenced the American Founding Fathers.<ref> See Ronald Hamowy, "Cato's Letters" in Hamowy, ed. ''Encyclopedia of Libertarianism'' (2008) p. 54-55 [http://books.google.com/books?id=yxNgXs3TkJYC&pg=PA54&dq=republicanism+%22cato+the+younger%22&lr=&as_drrb_is=b&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=2005&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=2009&num=30&as_brr=0#v=onepage&q=republicanism%20%22cato%20the%20younger%22&f=false online]</ref>
Cato inspired English political journalists [[John Trenchard]] and [[Thomas Gordon]] to publish anonymously ''Cato's Letters" (1720-23). These were 138 letters or short essays that expounded on republicanism and which greatly influenced the American Founding Fathers.<ref> See Ronald Hamowy, "Cato's Letters" in Hamowy, ed. ''Encyclopedia of Libertarianism'' (2008) p. 54-55 [http://books.google.com/books?id=yxNgXs3TkJYC&pg=PA54&dq=republicanism+%22cato+the+younger%22&lr=&as_drrb_is=b&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=2005&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=2009&num=30&as_brr=0#v=onepage&q=republicanism%20%22cato%20the%20younger%22&f=false online]</ref>
The [[Cato Institute]] is a prominent American libertarian think tank was founded in 1977 in honor of ''Cato's Letters" by Trenchard and Gordon.
==Further reading==
==Further reading==
* Addison, Joseph. ''Cato: A Tragedy'' (1713), highly influential play that displayed Cato's republican virtues. [http://www.constitution.org/addison/cato_play.htm online edition]
* Addison, Joseph. ''Cato: A Tragedy'' (1713), highly influential play that displayed Cato's republican virtues. [http://www.constitution.org/addison/cato_play.htm online edition]
* Litto, Fredric M. "Addison's Cato in the Colonies," ''William and Mary Quarterly,'' Vol. 23, No. 3 (Jul., 1966), pp. 431-449 [http://www.jstor.org/stable/1919239 in JSTOR]
* Richard, Carl J. ''Greeks and Romans bearing gifts: how the ancients inspired the Founding Fathers'' (2008) 203 pp. [http://books.google.com/books?id=eMCNOo3xsOUC&pg=PA149&dq=republicanism+%22cato+the+younger%22&lr=&as_drrb_is=b&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=2000&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=2009&num=30&as_brr=0 excerpt and text search]
* Richard, Carl J. ''Greeks and Romans bearing gifts: how the ancients inspired the Founding Fathers'' (2008) 203 pp. [http://books.google.com/books?id=eMCNOo3xsOUC&pg=PA149&dq=republicanism+%22cato+the+younger%22&lr=&as_drrb_is=b&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=2000&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=2009&num=30&as_brr=0 excerpt and text search]