 | A.W. Brill - 1855 - 198 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,... | |
 | Oregon - Law - 1855 - 670 pages
...Xo 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 Jj'™^33 ^ treason ; but no attainder of treason shall work corruption of... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - United States - 1856 - 854 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... | |
 | Campaign literature - 1856 - 54 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... | |
 | Campaign literature - 1856 - 86 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 forfeitares,... | |
 | 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 - 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... | |
 | 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... | |
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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... 
