Normally, in this area, the Constitution either gives power ... and the specific definition of treason about giving - about making war against the country, giving aid and comfort to the enemy ...

While most nations define treason as betraying one's own country, the crime of treason is the only criminal act defined explicitly in the U.S. Constitution. Treason is defined at the federal level ...

When it came time to defend the Constitution, Madison left behind his earlier aversion to a narrow definition of treason and, in The Federalist No. 43, lauded the Convention’s wisdom as raising ...

As a new country and not just a collection of British colonies who had just finished waging war, the Framers were concerned with treason. The Constitution defines the crime of treason as a person ...

delivered a charge to the Grand Jury, in which, after giving the definition of treason and the various ... It was so regarded by the framers of the Constitution, and they have secured it in ...