 | James Spence - Secession - 1861 - 398 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,... | |
 | Thomas C. Faulkner - Secession - 1861 - 126 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,... | |
 | John Warner Barber, Henry Howe - United States - 1861 - 782 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,... | |
 | Orville James Victor - United States - 1861 - 572 pages
...No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the tamo 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... | |
 | Charles Edward Rawlins - Secession - 1862 - 252 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. Convention - Constitutions - 1862 - 894 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,... | |
 | North Dakota - Session laws - 1862 - 640 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 Congress to detreason; bnt no attainder of treason shall work corruption... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - World history - 1862 - 830 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... | |
 | Frank Moore - United States - 1862 - 812 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,... | |
 | Frank Moore - United States - 1862 - 840 pages
...Ko 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,... | |
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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 on confession in open court. 
