limitations of government. and men who founded this country also understood what was meant by a free press. do you know back before the revolution and during the revolution, there are only a couple of dozen newspapers, little over 30, less than 40. even before that, there are relative handful of printers and the printers were the great patriots. how else would you get the word out? but the pamphleteers were key. many, many pamphleteers and they would write their pamphlets which include some news of the day, typically old news because it took time for news to travel, but the vast majority of the pamphleteers were patriots for liberty, for limited government, for representative government, for private property rights. they were pamphleteers against tyranny and pamphlets would be posted at pubs and other public place. pamphlets would be circulated and by mouth discussed at the