Treason
idea · 4 works · 5 mentions · 7 anchored passages
treason · betrayal · prodosia · treasonable
in the texts
Against Leocrates
The charge and concept underlying the case, represented as one of the two possible outcomes of the jury's vote.
If you acquit Leocrates, you will vote for the betrayal of the city, of its temples and its fleet.
It is now for each of you to reflect that the absolver of Leocrates condemns his country to death and slavery, that of the two caskets before you one stands for treason and the other for deliverance, that the votes cast into one are given for the destruction of your country and the rest for safety and prosperity in Athens.
Then will you not kill this man who is answerable for every crime?
The Unconstitutionality of Slavery
The constitutionally defined crime of levying war against the United States or aiding its enemies.
” Also that “Treason against the United States shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort.
” It may, however, be doubted whether they could commit the crime of treason—for treason implies a breach of fidelity, trust or allegiance, where fidelity, trust or allegiance is due.
The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625–1660
The capital charge of betraying the constitutional order, applied by the Commons to Strafford's arbitrary acts.
They therefore impeached him as a traitor, on the ground that his many arbitrary acts furnished evidence of a settled purpose to place the King above the law, and that such a purpose was tantamount to treason;
Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John
The offense against the sovereign's person, distinguished from felony by entailing total forfeiture.
Treason was an offence against the person of the sovereign, and it was probably on this ground that the King made good his claim to seize as forfeit the entire estate, real and personal, of every one condemned to a traitor’s death.