 | Theodore Sedgwick - Constitutional history - 1857 - 774 pages
...arguments used against its adoption. Story Com. § 1858. 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... | |
 | J. B. Shurtleff - United States - 1857 - 210 pages
...— 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,... | |
 | Michigan, Thomas McIntyre Cooley - Law - 1857 - 828 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 pimish- cnn^nM to de1 ' clurc its punishment of treason ; but no attainder of treason shall... | |
 | Michigan - 1857 - 840 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 punish- confess to ,1* *• r clnro Its punishment of treason ; but no attainder of treason... | |
 | Furman Sheppard - Constitutional law - 1857 - 356 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... | |
 | James Kent - Law - 1858 - 732 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 congress to - . . declare its treason ; but no attainder of treason shall... | |
 | New York (State) - Law - 1859 - 1086 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 9™]^",",,'° treason ; but no attainder of treason shall work corruption... | |
 | William Draper Swan - History - 1859 - 222 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... | |
 | Thomas C. Faulkner - Secession - 1861 - 126 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,... | |
 | Kansas - Law - 1861 - 344 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 its punishment. of treason, but no attainder of treason shall work corruption... | |
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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... 
