" Article 3, section 2, clause 3 -- "The trial of all
crimes, except in cases of impeachment, shall be by jury; and such trial
shall be held in the State where the said crimes shall have been
committed; but when not committed within any State, the trial shall be
at such place or places as the Congress may by law have directed."
Section 3, of the same article -- "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." And clause 3, of the same section --
"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."
It may well be a question, whether these are not, upon the whole, of
equal importance with any which are to be found in the constitution of
this State. The establishment of the writ of habeas corpus, the
prohibition of ex post facto laws, and of TITLES OF NOBILITY, to which
we have no corresponding provision in our Constitution, are perhaps
greater securities to liberty and republicanism than any it contains.
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