treason may have been abused as a way of getting at the King's enemies, and so I think the special requirements of proof, and the specific definition of treason about giving - about making war ...

the Convention has with great judgment opposed a barrier to this peculiar danger by inserting a Constitutional definition of the crime." The Constitution confines the crime of treason to two ...

In England, commencing during the reign of Edward III, Parliament narrowed the definition of treason but later widened it according to political exigencies. The laws of the American colonies ...

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.