Topic summary
Cato Letters
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Cato's Letters.
Historiography
The libertarian Murray Rothbard said that Bailyn had found in the Cato Letters a "missing ingredient" that "transformed Lockeannatural rights theory" into a "libertarian and anti-British framework" which contributed to a (realistic) conspiracist view of the British government. In a 1978 essay Rothbard said that Cato's Letters were the "most important shaper" of the revolutionary's "libertarian viewpoint".