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" Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them, or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason. "
Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States - Page 78
by United States. Supreme Court - 1820
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Reports of Cases Argued and Decided in the Supreme Court of the ..., Book 5

United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1882 - 784 pages
...relate to place, or to crime. The 1st section defines the crime of treason, and declares, ' ' that if any person or persons owing allegiance to the United States of America shall levy war," &c., " such person or persons shall be adjudged guilty of treason," &c. The second section dennes misprision...
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Compilation of Laws Relating to the Navy, Marine Corps, Etc: From the ...

United States - Naval law - 1883 - 416 pages
...Every person owing allegiance to the United States who Treason levies war against them, or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is gnilty of treason. 30 April, 1790, s. 1, v. 1., p. 112. Punishment of SEI'. п:Ш. Every person...
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Federal Decisions: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme ..., Volume 12

Law reports, digests, etc - 1885 - 1156 pages
...which relate to place or to crime. The first section defines the crime of treason, and declares "that, if any person or persons owing allegiance to the United States of America, shall levy war," etc., "such person or persons shall be adjudged guilty of treason," etc. The second section defines...
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Extraterritorial Criminal Jurisdiction and Its Effect on American Citizens

Adllph Hepner - Criminal jurisdiction - 1890 - 52 pages
...5331. Every person owing allegiance to the United States, who levies war against them, or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason. " Every person owing allegiance" means those non-citizens, too, who declared...
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The American and English Encyclopedia of Law, Volume 26

John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie, David Shephard Garland - Law - 1894 - 1058 pages
...3. " Every person owing allegiance to the United States who levies war against them, or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason." US Rev. Stat., S 533'The constitutional definition cannot be restricted or extended...
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United States Laws Relating to the Navy, Marine Corps, Etc.,: Compiled from ...

United States - Military law - 1898 - 596 pages
...owing allegiance to the United о » States who levies war against them, or adheres to their . ii2. '"' enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason. SEC. 5332. Every person guilty of treason shall suffer trj'al)1nishment °' death...
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Great Speeches by Great Lawyers: A Collection of Arguments and Speeches ...

William Lamartine Snyder - Forensic orations - 1901 - 776 pages
...giving them aid and comfort."1 By an act of Congress, approved April 30, 1790, it is declared, that " if any person or persons owing allegiance to the United...enemies, giving them aid and comfort, within the United Sta'cs or elsewhere, and shall be thereof convicted on confession in open court, or on the testimony...
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Congressional Serial Set, Issue 4171

United States - 1901 - 1234 pages
...that "every person owing allegiance to the United States who levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason." That makes the treason clause in the Constitution complete and intelligible....
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Reports on the Law of Civil Government in Territory Subject to Military ...

United States. Bureau of Insular Affairs, Charles Edward Magoon - Military occupation - 1902 - 816 pages
...to the enemies thereof, whether foreign or domestic, giving them aid or comfort, within this State or elsewhere, and shall be thereof convicted, on confession in open court or on thf testimony of two witnesses, both of them to the same overt act, he shall suffer death, or be sentenced...
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Laws Against Treason, Sedition, Etc. Communication from the Law Officer of ...

United States. Bureau of Insular Affairs - Sedition - 1902 - 54 pages
...5331. Every person owing allegiance to the United States who levies war against them, or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason. SEC. 5332. Every person guilty of treason shall suffer death; or, at the discretion...
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