 | Charles Britten Johnson - Pennsylvania - 1819 - 190 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,... | |
 | Albert Picket - American literature - 1820 - 314 pages
...No person shall be convicted of treason unless on tin; 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 * reason; but no attainder of treason shall work corruption of blood, or forfeiture,... | |
 | Edward Ingersoll - Law - 1821 - 882 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,... | |
 | Maine - 1821 - 632 pages
...ecj of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to net. e^ary to conviction. the same overt act, or on confession in open court. 2. The Congress shall have power to declare the punishConp-ess to . • ' ' declare the incut of treason ; but no attainder of treason shall work... | |
 | Connecticut - Law - 1821 - 536 pages
...No person sh'll 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 "^* °f wor^ corruption of blood, or... | |
 | Rhode Island - Session laws - 1822 - 592 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,... | |
 | Maine - 1822 - 802 pages
...of treason shall work cor- fihm ruption of blood, or forfeiture, except during the life of the IOD' person attainted. ARTICLE IV. SECTION I. 1. Full faith and credit shall be given, in each State, the public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of every ы»«- to the L... | |
 | Pardon Davis - Constitutional law - 1823 - 258 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,... | |
 | Peter Stephen Du Ponceau - Courts - 1824 - 326 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...life of the person attainted. ARTICLE IV. SECTION I. Full faith and credit shall be given, in each State, to the public acts, records, and judicial proceedings... | |
 | United States, Trueman Cross - Military law - 1825 - 326 pages
...person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt art, or on confession in open court. 2. The congress shall have power to declare the punishment of treason; hut 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... 
