Do you consider your life threatened by using your name in local paper - really?     

And the founders DID try to secure free speech, something they saw as a need to protect in a era where Royalty or totalitarian rule was the standard.    They were not in a positiion of being granted free speech in their own era.    It's why people on both left and right are vigilant to transgression.

The federalist papers were a serious writing for a speciific purpose.   If I read the article right, some even shared a name based on which side of the argument they represented.  They also outlined the disputed need for a Bill of Rights, (including the right of free speech and the right to arms).    

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Federalist_Papers

You seldom seek to slander your opponents Motley, you stay on topic and that's appreciated.