Contributors
Cato:
Marcus Porcius Cato Uticensis (95 BC, Rome – April 46 BC, Utica), commonly known as Cato the Younger (Cato Minor) to distinguish him from his great-grandfather (Cato the Elder), was a politician and statesman in the late Roman Republic, and a follower of the Stoicphilosophy. He is remembered for his legendary stubbornness and tenacity (especially in his lengthy conflict with Gaius Julius Caesar), as well as his immunity to bribes, his moral integrity, and his famous distaste for the ubiquitous corruption of the period.
Source:Â http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cato_the_Younger
I chose the pseudonym Cato due to the names use and significance during The Enlightenment Period. Â Cato was seen as the staunch defender of The Roman Republic and our Founders were very familiar with Cato and the history of Rome and antiquity. Â His very life was an example of one who truly lived by the words “Give me liberty of give me death”.
Joseph Addison wrote the Enlightenment play Cato: A Tragedy based on the last days of Cato the Younger.  it deals with such themes as individual liberty vs. government tyranny, republicanism vs. monarchism, logic vs. emotion and Cato’s personal struggle to cleave to his beliefs in the face of death. It had a great influence on George Washington, who arranged to have it performed at Valley Forge in the winter of 1777-1778.
Further, Enlightenment writers John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon published essays known as Cato’s Letters, first published from 1720 to 1723 under the pseudonym of Cato, the implacable foe of Julius Caesar and a famously stubborn champion of  republican principles.
The Letters are 144 essays published originally in the London Journal and British Journal. These newspaper essays condemning tyranny and advancing principles of individual rights, were a main vehicle for spreading the concepts that had been developed by John Locke (life, liberty, property).
Thus, what better pseudonym to adopt when one wishes to write about these principles today?