 However flagitious may be the crime of conspiring to subvert by force the government of our country, such conspiracy is not treason. To conspire to levy war, and actually to levy war, are distinct offences. The first must be brought into open action by...  Papers ... Letters [and Speeches]. - Side 303av William Shee - 1862Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | Aaron Burr - 1808 - 608 sider
...levy war, and actually to levy war, are distinct offences. The first must be brought into operation by the assemblage of men for a purpose treasonable...been carried, that in a case reported by Ventris, and that mentioned in some modern treatise on criminal law, it has been determined, that the actual enlistment... | |
 | 1808 - 652 sider
...levy war, and actually to levy war, are distinct offences. The first must be brought into operation by the assemblage of men for a purpose treasonable...fact of levying war cannot have been committed." So lar has this principle been carried " that it has been determined, that actual inlistment of men to... | |
 | Aaron Burr - 1808 - 552 sider
...to levy war and actually to levy war are distinct offences. The first must be brought into operation by the assemblage of men for a purpose treasonable in itself, or the fact of levying war cannot haiiebeen committed" Again: "On the contrary if war be actually levied, that is, if a body of men be... | |
 | T. Carpenter - 1808 - 482 sider
...war, and actually levying war, are two distinct ofiences. The first must be brought into operation by the assemblage of men for a purpose treasonable in itself: or the fact of levying war cannot be committed. So far has this principle been carried, that in a case reported by Ventris, and mentioned... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, William Cranch - 1812 - 516 sider
...levy war, and actually to levy war, are distinct offences. The first must be brought into operation by the assemblage of men for a purpose treasonable in itself, or the fact of levyipg •war cannot have been committed." Although it is not expressly stated that the assemblage... | |
 | Stephen Cullen Carpenter - 1815 - 534 sider
...levy war, and actually to levy war, are distinct offences. The first must be brought into operation by the assemblage of men for a purpose treasonable...the fact of levying war cannot have been committed." Is there any requisition of force here? Is it said that the conspiracy must be brought into operation... | |
 | Elijah Paine, United States. Circuit Court (2nd Circuit) - 1827 - 748 sider
...levy war, and actually to levy war, are distinct offences : the first must be brought into operation by the' assemblage of men for a purpose treasonable...the fact of levying war cannot have been committed." " There must," says the Court, in another part of its opinion, " be an actual assemblage of men, for... | |
 | John Marshall - 1839 - 762 sider
...levy war, and actually to levy war, are distinct offences. The first must be brought into operation by the assemblage of men for a purpose treasonable...the fact of levying war cannot have been committed." Although it is not expressly stated that the assemblage of men, for the purpose of carrying into operation... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1852 - 772 sider
...levy war, and actually to levy war, are distinct offences. The first must be brought into operation bv the assemblage of men for a purpose treasonable in...the fact of levying war cannot have been committed." Although it is not expressly stated that the assemblage of men for the purpose of carrying into operation... | |
 | George Van Santvoord - 1854 - 554 sider
...levy war, and actually to levy war, are distinct offences. The first must be brought into operation by the assemblage of men for a purpose treasonable...the fact of levying war cannot have been committed." Such was held by Judge Marshall to be the American law of treason. So widely different is it from the... | |
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