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Originally Posted by MysticCat
The "or" comes between "levying War against them" and "adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort." So merely giving enemies aid and comfort is not enough to satisfy the definition. The aid and comfort is linked to adhering to the enemy. So the bottom line is that for treason, one either has to actually fight for the enemy or at the least give some allegiance to the enemy, with aid and comfort in furtherance of that allegiance.
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To further this, the noun use of "comfort" is an archaic one, meaning literally "assistance or strengthening aid" and not the modern senses of the term.
So ... yeah, as I'm no Constitutional scholar (but I appear to know a good one
), I'll agree with MC's assertion that "tough road to hoe" would be the minimum here.
There are better ways to get a conviction, and I assume that's all anyone really wants.
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