Treason
idea · 3 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
treason · treasonable
in the texts
The Unconstitutionality of Slavery
The constitutionally defined crime of levying war against the United States or aiding its enemies.
” 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.
” 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.
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.