Literally, WWII, I think: Herbert Hans Haupt, born in Germany, son of naturalized citizens.
Figuratively, when the combination of the women’s vote and the “progressive” (communist) influence made executing traitors - like the death penalty generally - just not nice, and therefore relegated to the trash heap of theoretical sentences that somehow never get used anymore.
For the same reasons, we no longer enforce sedition laws - and we therefore have more sedition than ever.
Could be. Except for the Rosenburgs and one other guy, you might be right.
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