 | Oregon - Law - 1855 - 670 pages
...Xo 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 Jj'™^33 ^ treason ; but no attainder of treason shall work corruption of... | |
 | Campaign literature - 1856 - 54 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...IV. SECTION I. Full Faith and Credit shall be given in each State to the public Acts, Records, and judicial Proceedings of every other State. And the Congress... | |
 | Campaign literature - 1856 - 86 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...of the person attainted. . ARTICLE IV. SECTION I. — Acts of States Accredited. 1. Full faith and credit shall be given in each state to the public... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - United States - 1856 - 854 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... | |
 | J. B. Shurtleff - United States - 1857 - 210 pages
...— 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...life of the person attainted. ARTICLE IV. SECTION I. 1. Full faith and credit shall be gfven in each state to the public acts, records, and judicial proceed-ings... | |
 | Michigan, Thomas McIntyre Cooley - Law - 1857 - 828 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 pimish- cnn^nM to de1 ' clurc its punishment of treason ; but no attainder of treason shall... | |
 | Michigan - 1857 - 840 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 punish- confess to ,1* *• r clnro Its punishment of treason ; but no attainder of treason... | |
 | Furman Sheppard - Constitutional law - 1857 - 356 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... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick - Constitutional history - 1857 - 774 pages
...arguments used against its adoption. Story Com. § 1858. 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... | |
 | James Kent - Law - 1858 - 732 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 - . . declare its treason ; but no attainder of treason shall... | |
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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. 
