To: Jim Noble
Isn’t it treason against the goverment? I would think selling off top secret info would qualify as that
53 posted on
03/26/2016 12:52:50 PM PDT by
GrandJediMasterYoda
(Can we please kill the guy already who invented the saying "My bad"?)
To: GrandJediMasterYoda
High treason is an attack, verbal or physical, on the person of the monarch or a member of the Royal Family. It includes unlawful sexual intercourse with the wife of a member of the Royal Family, and used to include counterfeiting coins with the monarch's portrait.
The use of "high treason" against political enemies had faded by 1788, but the memory of its use for this purpose was still vivid for the Founders. It is for this reason that "treason" is the only crime that is defined in the US Constitution, and its why there is only one grade of treason in our law.
55 posted on
03/26/2016 12:59:21 PM PDT by
Jim Noble
(Diseases desperate grown, are by desperate appliance relieved, or not at all)
To: GrandJediMasterYoda
Isn’t it treason against the goverment?In British common law countries, maybe.
Our Constitution defines it as a crime "against the united States".
57 posted on
03/26/2016 1:06:55 PM PDT by
Jim Noble
(Diseases desperate grown, are by desperate appliance relieved, or not at all)
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