 | Kentucky, Charles Slaughter Morehead, Mason Brown - Law - 1834 - 810 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 Attainder, treason, but no attainder of treason shall work corruption of... | |
 | William Shepherd - United States - 1834 - 336 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... | |
 | William Shepherd - United States - 1834 - 298 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... | |
 | Moses Severance - American literature - 1835 - 314 pages
...treason ; but no attainder of treason shall work corruption of blood, or forfeiture, except dming the life of the person attainted. ARTICLE IV. Sec. 1. Full faith and credit shall be given in each state to the public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of every other state. And... | |
 | Maine. Legislature - 1847 - 892 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,... | |
 | South Carolina - Law - 1836 - 476 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... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional history - 1837 - 516 pages
...treason, but no attainder of treason shall work corruption of blood, or forfeiture except during the life of the person attainted. ARTICLE IV. SEC. 1. Full faith and credit shall be given in each slate to the public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of every other state. And... | |
 | Bishop Davenport - United States - 1837 - 150 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... | |
 | John Frost - North America - 1838 - 400 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,... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy - 1838 - 354 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... | |
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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... 
