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 ...

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 ...