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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The judicial Power shall extend to all Cases, in Law and Equity, arising under this Constitution, the Laws of the United ... such Place or Places as the Congress may by Law have directed. Treason ...

Otherwise, having denied Congress the power to define treason, it might be inferred that the Constitution also denied Congress the power to legislate against counterfeiting. Second, the Framers ...