You just know that this is the start of the drumbeat to end anonymity on the net coming from a supposedly educated woman who has no idea that "Publius" wrote the Federalist Papers and that anonymity has historically been a basic makeup of our political process.
Ironically, historians have spent a lot of effort to uncover the identities of the writers over time, but the anonymity was instrumental to the free and fair debate of ideas---apart from the personalities.
| Author | Notes | |
|---|---|---|
| A.B. | Francis Hopkinson | Federalist.[1] |
| Agrippa | James Winthrop[2] | Eighteen essays appeared under this name in the Massachusetts Gazette between November 23, 1787 and February 5, 1788.[3] |
| Alfredus | Samuel Tenney | Federalist.[4] |
| Americanus | John Stevens, Jr.[5] | |
| Aristedes | Alexander Contee Hanson | Federalist.[6] |
| Aristocrotis | William Petrikin | Anti-Federalist.[7] |
| An Assemblyman | William Findley | |
| Brutus | Robert Yates[8] | Anti-Federalist. After Marcus Junius Brutus. |
| Caesar | Alexander Hamilton? | |
| Candidus | Benjamin Austin[9] | |
| Cato | George Clinton[10] | Anti-Federalist. |
| Centinel | Samuel Bryan | Alternately, the author possibly was George Bryan.[11] |
| Cincinnatus | Arthur Lee | After Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus. Six essays addressed to James Wilson appeared under this name in the New York Journal beginning November 1, 1787.[12] |
| A Citizen of America | Noah Webster | |
| A Citizen of New Haven | Roger Sherman | |
| A Columbian Patriot | Mercy Warren[13] | |
| A Countryman | Roger Sherman | |
| A Country Federalist | James Kent | |
| Crito | Stephen Hopkins | |
| Examiner | Charles McKnight | |
| Federal Farmer | Anti-Federalist. The Federal Farmer letters are frequently attributed to Richard Henry Lee, but modern scholarship has challenged Lee's authorship.[14] | |
| Foreign Spectator | Nicholas Collin[15] | |
| Genuine Information | Luther Martin | |
| Harrington | Benjamin Rush | |
| Helvidius Priscus | James Warren[16] | |
| An Independent Freeholder | Alexander White | |
| John DeWitt | ||
| A Landholder | Oliver Ellsworth | Thirteen essays, some of the most widely circulated commentary on the proposed Constitution, appeared under this name, with the first publication coming in the Hartford papers. The essays were certainly written by one of the Connecticut delegates to the Convention, and Ellsworth is the only likely possibility.[17] |
| Marcus | James Iredell | |
| Margery | George Bryan | |
| An Officer of the Late Continental Army | William Findley[18] | |
| A Pennsylvania Farmer | John Dickinson | |
| Philadelphiensis | Benjamin Workman | |
| Philo-Publius | William Duer | |
| Phocion | Alexander Hamilton | |
| A Plain Dealer | Spencer Roane[19] | |
| A Plebian | Melancton Smith | |
| Publius | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay | After Publius Valerius Publicola. Under this name the three men wrote the 85 Federalist Papers. Hamilton had already used the name in 1778., |
| A Republican Federalist | James Warren[20] | |
| Rough Hewer | Abraham Yates | |
| Senex | Patrick Henry? | Published an article in the Virginia Independent Chronicle, August 15, 1787, which was reprinted in four states. James McClurg wrote that the author was "supposed by some to be Mr. H---y."[21] |
| The State Soldier | St. George Tucker | |
| Sydney | Robert Yates[22] | |
| Timoleon | After Timoleon of Corinth. | |
| Tullius | George Turner? |
So is Ms. Allen registered on Free Republic and soliciting information under her full legal name in threads or is she hiding behind an anonymous viewing account, as someone who is not logged in, or under an alias?