No pseudonyms, no freedom.
> During the debates over the design and ratification of the United States Constitution, in 1787 and 1788, a large number of writers in the popular press used pseudonyms.
> To avoid opening himself and Madison to charges of betraying the Convention’s confidentiality, Alexander Hamilton chose the pen name “Publius,” after a general who had helped found the Roman Republic.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pseudonyms_used_in_the_American_Constitutional_debates
https://communityliteracy.org/why-did-the-federalists-use-the-pseudonym-publius/
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