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The Officers' Guide and Farmers' Manual: Containing a Comprehensive ... - Page 20
by John Cain - 1832 - 347 pages
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Session Laws

North Dakota - 1862 - 640 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 detreason; bnt no attainder of treason shall work corruption...
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The Military Laws of the United States: Relating to the Army, Volunteers ...

John F. Callan, United States - 1863 - 912 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 I 44 CONSTITUTION...
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Southern History of the War: The First Year of the War

Edward Alfred Pollard - 1863 - 432 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,...
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Bacon's Guide to American Politics, Or, A Complete View of the Fundamental ...

George Washington Bacon - 1863 - 122 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,...
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The Statutes at Large of the Provisional Government of the Confederate ...

Confederate States of America - 1864 - 490 pages
...No person shall be convicted of treason unless on (he 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 trea- Punishment ortreĀ»eon ; but no attainder of treason shall work corruption...
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Free Government in England and America: Containing the Great ..., Volume 25

John Fulton - 1864 - 582 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...
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A Familiar Exposition of the Constitution of the United States: Containing a ...

Joseph Story - 1865 - 384 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,...
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An Analytical Digest of the Laws of the United States, Volume 1

Frederick Charles Brightly - 1865 - 1152 pages
...Witnesses 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 PuuiJunent. attainder of treason shall work corruption of...
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The Life and Administration of Abraham Lincoln: Presenting His Early History ...

George Washington Bacon - 1865 - 206 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 jf blood or forfeiture,...
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Synopsis of the American War

Joshua Rhodes Balme - 1866 - 314 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...
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