American Studies Professor Jonathan White looks at Civil Liberties and Treason during the Civil War. This hour and fifteen minute class took place at Christopher Newport University in Newport News ...

By Section 110 of Article III. of the Constitution of the United States, it is declared that: "Treason against the United States shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to ...

When Congress was drafting Section 3 of the 14th Amendment the year after the Civil War ended, the purpose of that provision was clear: to prevent people from serving in the government if they had ...

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