Posted on 10/01/2002 8:21:00 PM PDT by efnwriter
efreedomnews WAR ON TERRORISM - AN AMERICAN PERSPECTIVE | ||||||||
McDermott Trusts Saddam, Not Bush:
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efn: September 30, 2002 Yesterday, Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Washington), in Baghdad, stated Saddam Hussein should be taken at his word and trusted to allow unfettered arms inspections, while President Bush would lie to start a war with Iraq. (ABC News This Week)
Vote: Is this treason/sedition? (defined below)
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U.S. Constitution Article III, Section 3: 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 on confession in open court.
THE FEDERALIST PAPERSNo. XXXXIII: As treason may be committed against the United States, the authority of the United States ought to be enabled to punish it. But as new-fangled and artificial treasons have been the great engines by which violent factions, the natural offspring of free government, have usually wreaked their alternate malignity on each other, the convention have, with great judgment, opposed a barrier to this peculiar danger, by inserting a constitutional definition of the crime, fixing the proof necessary for conviction of it, and restraining the Congress, even in punishing it, from extending the consequences of guilt beyond the person of its author.
Sedition: rebellion or incitement: actions or words intended to provoke or incite rebellion against government authority, or such a rebellion. FEDERALIST No. 74 In every such case, we might expect to see the representation of the people |
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