On 4/29/11, Bill Maurer <wmaurer@ij.org> wrote:
Steven,
An interesting question. As Silence Dogood, Publius, A Federal Farmer,
George Kennan and others could point out, there are plenty of reasons
why a speaker may wish to remain anonymous and why revelation of their
identities would cause them to silence themselves.
In the case of those certain Federalist Paper writers, the
Constitutional Convention had exceeded its powers and had the
Constitution not been ratified, such acts might have been punishable
by sanctions up to and possibly including treason. (It would be
different had the Constitutional convention not exceeded its charter).
As someone said, successful treason is not treason. (Assuming the
above did or could rise to that level).