 Jonathan Swift wrote his greatest satires for "The Examiner", often in allegorical form, lampooning the controversies between the Tories and Whigs.The so-called "Cato Letters," written by John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon under the pseudonym, "Cato", were published in the London Journal in the 1720s and discussed the theories of the Commonwealth men such as ideas about liberty, representative government, and freedom of expression.These letters had a great impact in colonial America and the nascent republican movement all the way up to the signing of the Declaration of Independence.