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" Crimes so atrocious as those which have for their object the subversion by violence of those laws and those institutions which have been ordained in order to secure the peace and happiness of society, are not to escape punishment because they have not... "
The Trial of Col. Aaron Burr on an Indictment for Treason: Before the ... - Page xix
by T. Carpenter - 1808
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The Constitutional Review, Volume 9

Constitutional law - 1925 - 276 pages
...laws and those institutions which have been ordained in order to secure the peace and happiness of society, are not to escape punishment because they have not ripened into treason." The usual objection was made by the defendant that the criminal syndicalism act violated the principle...
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Report Pursuant to Public Law 304, 84th Congress: As Amended

United States. Commission on Government Security - Subversive activities - 1957 - 868 pages
...3. US Constitution. » Ibid. 4 Ch. 645. 62 Sut. 807 i miii . •4 Cranch 75 (1807). and happiness of society, are not to escape punishment because they...legislature is competent to provide for the case; . . .* In this regard Congress has taken appropriate action by enacting other criminal statutes attacking...
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The Constitution in the Supreme Court: The Second Century, 1888-1986, Volume 2

David P. Currie - Law - 1994 - 682 pages
...laws and those institutions which have been ordained in order to secure the peace and happiness of society, are not to escape punishment because they...legislature is competent to provide for the case. . . . Id. at 77. 1302 M. FARRAND, supra note 80, at 347, quoted in Cramer, 325 US at 45. 131 See supra...
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Americana: The Americas in the World, Around 1850

James Dunkerley - History - 2000 - 732 pages
...those laws and those mstitutions which have been ordained in order to secure the peace and happiness of society, are not to escape punishment because they...and the framers of our constitution, who not only defmed and limited the crime but with jealous circumspection attempted to protect their limitation...
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Keeping the Faith: A Cultural History of the U.S. Supreme Court

John E. Semonche - History - 2000 - 532 pages
...Saying that such charges excite men's passions, the chiefjustice added that the Constitution's framers "not only defined and limited the crime, but with...protect their limitation by providing that no person be convicted of it, unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession...
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