 | Theodore Sedgwick - 1857 - 774 pages
...arguments used against its adoption. Story Com. § 1858. testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court. (2.) The Congress shall have power to declare the punishment of treason ; but no attainder of treason shall work corruption of blood, or... | |
 | Furman Sheppard - 1857 - 356 pages
...No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court. [2] The Congress shall have Power to declare the Punishment of Treason, but no Attainder of Treason shall work Corruption of Blood, or Forfeiture... | |
 | Michigan - 1857 - 840 pages
...No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court. 2. The Congress shall have power to declare the punish- confess to ,1* *• r clnro Its punishment of treason ; but no attainder of treason... | |
 | J. B. Shurtleff - 1857 - 210 pages
...— person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court. 2. The congress shall have power to declare the punishment of treason; but no attainder of treason shall work corruption of blood, or forfeiture,... | |
 | Michigan, Thomas McIntyre Cooley - 1857 - 828 pages
...No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court. 2. The Congress shall have power to declare the pimish- cnn^nM to de1 ' clurc its punishment of treason ; but no attainder of treason shall... | |
 | James Kent - 1858 - 732 pages
...No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court. 2. The congress shall have power to declare the punishment of congress to - . . declare its treason ; but no attainder of treason shall... | |
 | William Draper Swan - 1859 - 222 pages
...No person shall be convicted of treason, unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court. 2. The Congress shall have power to declare the punishment of treason ; but no attainder of treason shall work corruption of blood, or... | |
 | New York (State) - 1859 - 1086 pages
...No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court. 2. The congress shall have power to declare the punishment of 9™]^",",,'° treason ; but no attainder of treason shall work corruption... | |
 | Kansas - 1861 - 344 pages
...No person shall be convicted of treason, unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court. 2. The Congress shall have power to declare the punishment its punishment. of treason, but no attainder of treason shall work corruption... | |
 | John Warner Barber, Henry Howe - 1861 - 782 pages
...No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court. 2, The congress shall have power to declare the punishment of treason, but no attainder of treason shall work corruption of blood or forfeiture,... | |
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Treason against the United States shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or... 
