treason

(noun)

The crime of betraying one's own country.

Related Terms

Examples of treason in the following topics:

  • Article III

    • 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 Congress shall have power to declare the punishment of treason, but no attainder of treason shall work corruption of blood, or forfeiture except during the life of the person attainted.

  • Interstate Relations

    • Under the Extradition Clause, a state must extradite people located there who have fled charges of treason, felony, or other crimes in another state if the other state requests extradition.

  • Article IV

    • A person charged in any state with treason, felony, or other crime, who shall flee from justice, and be found in another state, shall on demand of the executive authority of the state from which he fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the state having jurisdiction of the crime.

  • Investigation

    • The legislature is authorized to appropriate funds; raise and support armies; provide for and maintain a navy; declare war; provide for organizing and calling forth the national guard; regulate interstate and foreign commerce; establish post offices and post roads; advise and consent on treaties and presidential nominations (Senate); and impeach (House) and try (Senate) the President, Vice President, and civil officers for treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.
    • The legislature is authorized to appropriate funds; raise and support armies; provide for and maintain a navy; declare war; provide for organizing and calling forth the national guard; regulate interstate and foreign commerce; establish post offices and post roads; advise and consent on treaties and presidential nominations (Senate); and impeach (House) and try (Senate) the President, Vice President, and civil officers for treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.

  • Impeachment and Removal from Office

    • At the federal level, Article II of the United States Constitution (Section 4), states that the President, Vice President, and all civil officers of the United States shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and in conviction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.

  • Oversight

    • The legislature is authorized to appropriate funds, raise and support armies, provide for and maintain a navy, declare war, provide for organizing and calling forth the national guard, regulate interstate and foreign commerce, establish post offices and post roads, advise and consent on treaties and presidential nominations (Senate), and impeach (House) and try (Senate) the President, Vice President, and civil officers for treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.

  • The Eighth Amendment and Cruel and Unusual Punishment

    • The Englishman was tried in 1685 for multiple acts of perjury during the ascension of King James II after a number of people whom Oates had wrongly accused of treason were executed.

  • Shay's Rebellion and the Revision of the Articles of Confederation

    • While Daniel Shays was in hiding, the government condemned him to death on the charge of treason.

  • Article II

    • The President, Vice President and all civil officers of the United States, shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.

  • Article I

    • They shall in all cases, except treason, felony and breach of the peace, be privileged from arrest during their attendance at the session of their respective Houses, and in going to and returning from the same; and for any speech or debate in either House, they shall not be questioned in any other place.