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work_6ljb6ohxbnboxdvv4z3sfn6zsu	Roger P. Mellen	Thomas Jefferson and the Origins of Newspaper Competition in Pre-Revolutionary Virginia	2009	12	.pdf	application/pdf	12730	753	63	For 200 years, historians have written that Thomas Jefferson and his fellow patriots brought a second printer into the colony Broader civic discourse spurred by commercial competition helped to develop new revolutionary ideals, including the concept of a constitutional protection for a free press, which ultimately was expressed in the First Thomas Jefferson has long been credited with bringing a printer to Virginia in 1765, introducing print competition to a colony that until then had only one printing press, Act and colonial printers, Thomas' eyewitness account provided invaluable details regarding American printing, and, a great diminution of the last, provoked their united zealous opposition." While Schlesinger repeated Thomas' claims, he also suggested the new, second printer in Virginia was not influenced by The first printer, William Parks, began his newspaper publishing with an overt recognition of the limits of press freedom and 	./cache/work_6ljb6ohxbnboxdvv4z3sfn6zsu.pdf	./txt/work_6ljb6ohxbnboxdvv4z3sfn6zsu.txt