For example, courts held that armed resistance to the collection of taxes constituted constructive treason. A number of cases arising out of the Civil War also suggested, without directly ...

While Treason prosecutions are rare today, only 40 cases have been prosecuted in U.S. history. Of the 40 treason cases charged since the founding of the U.S., only 13 resulted in a conviction ...

For example, the fact that she voluntarily handed ... that she will receive a sentence below the lower limit for high treason cases — 12 years. Earlier, Russia’s Federal Security Service ...

The Congress shall have Power to declare the Punishment of Treason, but no Attainder of Treason shall work Corruption of Blood, or Forfeiture except during the Life of the Person attainted.

(There is a reference in the judgment to the claim that all treason laws have retrospective effect.) He concludes that the prosecution has failed to make out a case of high treason against the ...