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treason
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Monday, January 15, 2024
Blackstone condemned the execution of Algernon Sidney for high treason
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“Treason, proditio , in its very name (which is borrowed from the French ) imports a betraying, treachery, or breach of faith. It therefore ...
Monday, July 10, 2023
The most serious crimes that anyone can commit (according to Blackstone)
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“Of crimes injurious to the persons of private subjects, the most principal and important is the offence of taking away that life , which is...
Sunday, July 4, 2021
A review of “The Declaration of Independence” (audiobook)
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“The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establi...
Saturday, July 27, 2019
What is “corruption of blood, or forfeiture” from an attainder of treason?
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“The Congress shall have power to declare the punishment of treason, but no attainder of treason shall work corruption of blood, or forfei...
Friday, December 15, 2017
Actually, the death penalty IS constitutional (as the Fifth Amendment makes clear)
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"The principle that there is a presumption of innocence in favor of the accused is the undoubted law, axiomatic and elementary, and...
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