oh, an another thing...I LOVE it when posters like you think you have a gotcha, and it’s just a cigar exploding in your face. Not only where the Publius authors known, but we were talking about a non free government.
That was BEFORE the First Amendment protections......so not only were you wrong, if you had been right, you would have been rendered moot.
it’s hard to make such a bad post.
The Publius essays were published anonymously.
Readers did not know who they were (though it was possible to surmise from their other public papers).
Just correcting a falsehood.
Won’t engage insulting idiots.
First, lets dispense with the false notion that the identities of Publius were known to the readers of the NY papers the Federalist Essays published in...at the time they weren't.
But I am really interested in your assertion that the United States had a non-free government in 1787 with the underlying suggestion that the reason Madison, Hamilton and others used psydonyms was the fear of government oppression.
That's quite a novel interpretation of American history and doesn't quite explain why Publius in Federalist 84 argues against the Bill of Rights...does it?