--- title: "2 Treason Treason Quotes by 2 authors" description: "Browse 2 Treason Treason quotes by 2 authors. Discover the best Treason Treason sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/607/e-l-doctorow-2-10582_american-history_treason-the-only-crime-defined-in-the-co_87701.jpg" --- > [“Treason the only crime defined in the Constitution. Tyranny as under the Stuart and Tudor kings characterized by the elimination of political dissent under the laws of treason. Treason statutes which were many and unending, the instrument by which the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-l-doctorow-2/treason-the-only-crime-defined-in-the-constitution-tyranny-as-under/) [E.L. Doctorow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-l-doctorow-2/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/607/e-l-doctorow-2-10582_american-history_treason-the-only-crime-defined-in-the-co_87701.jpg) > [If you begin to have a relationship where you're doing what the guards want, and once you're out you will see that as a treason, a treason to your country, a treason to yourself, a treason to everybody, so you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ingrid-betancourt/if-you-begin-to-have-a-relationship-where-you-re-doing-what-the/) [Ingrid Betancourt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ingrid-betancourt/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/775/ingrid-betancourt-12395_cautious_if-you-begin-to-have-a-relationship-wher_1765818.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/treason-treason/#itemlist", "name": "Treason Treason Quotes", "numberOfItems": 2, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Treason the only crime defined in the Constitution. Tyranny as under the Stuart and Tudor kings characterized by the elimination of political dissent under the laws of treason. Treason statutes which were many and unending, the instrument by which the monarch eliminated his opposition and also added to his wealth. The property of the executed traitor forfeited by his heirs because of the loathsomeness of his crime. The prosecution of treason, like witchcraft, an industry. Founding Fathers extremely sensitive to the establishment of a tyranny in this country by means of ambiguous treason law. Themselves traitors under British law. Under their formulation it became possible to be guilty of treason only against the nation, not the individual ruler or party. Treason was defined as an action rather than thought or speech. \"Treason against the US shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid & 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.\" This definition, by members of the constitutional convention, intended that T could not be otherwise defined short of constitutional amendment. \"The decision to impose constitutional safeguards on treason prosecutions formed part of a broad emerging American tradition of liberalism...No American has ever been executed for treason against his country,\" says Nathaniel Weyl, Treason the story of disloyalty and betrayal in American history, published in the year 1950. I say if this be treason make the most of it.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "E.L. 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