Columbia Law School's Richard Briffault explains why treason is the only crime defined in the US Constitution. Following is a transcript of the video: The Constitution specifically defines what ...

The drafters of the Constitution reached back (as had the Continental Congress) to language in the Statute of Treasons, 25 Edw. 3, 1351, ch. 2, stat. 5, which limited treason, among other things ...

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According to the Constitution, punishment can be set by ... used its constitutional power of declaring the punishment for treason by establishing the penalty of death, with seven years ...

It is unnecessary at this time to enter into an elaborate disquisition of the law of treason. The Constitution of the United States clearly defines in what it consists. The third section of the ...

I’m not intimidated.” According to U.S. Code Title 18, the penalty for treason — which is defined by the Constitution as levying war against the United States or adhering to the nation’s ...

AT last a conviction for high treason has been recorded and, hopefully, Article 6 of the Constitution can no longer be dismissed as a dead letter. After a six-year trial, the year 2019 saw General ...

Rahul Gandhi called RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat's remark that true independence came with the Ayodhya temple inauguration as 'treason,' challenging the Constitution and freedom struggle's significance.