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To: tallyhoe

In your opinion yes.
However not as defined by the Constitution which I thought we were defending.


38 posted on 12/31/2020 6:49:18 PM PST by Reily
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To: Reily

In your opinion yes.
However not as defined by the Constitution which I thought we were defending.

Treason is a unique offense in our constitutional order—the only crime expressly defined by the Constitution, and applying only to Americans who have betrayed the allegiance they are presumed to owe the United States. While the Constitution’s Framers shared the centuries-old view that all citizens owed a duty of loyalty to their home nation, they included the Treason Clause not so much to underscore the seriousness of such a betrayal, but to guard against the historic use of treason prosecutions by repressive governments to silence otherwise legitimate political opposition. Debate surrounding the Clause at the Constitutional Convention thus focused on ways to narrowly define the offense, and to protect against false or flimsy prosecutions.


39 posted on 12/31/2020 10:40:45 PM PST by tallyhoe
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