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33. It doesn't need to have been declared an insurrection. Nor does he even have to have taken par in it.

Reply to Polybius (Reply #31)

Fri Nov 29, 2024, 04:44 PM

Nov 2024

… shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. …

https://openyls.law.yale.edu/bitstream/handle/20.500.13051/11345/27_27YaleLJ331_1917_1918_.pdf?sequence=2&isAllowed=y

WHAT IS GIVING AID AND COMFORT
TO THE ENEMY?
CHARLES WARREN
Washington, D. C.

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In Young v. United States it was held that the words "aid or comfort to the rebellion" as used in the Captured and Abandoned Property Act of March 12, 1863, in the Civil War, were used in the same sense as in the Constitution defining treason--"that is to say, in their hostile sense"; and in that case, where a man contracted with the government of the State of North Carolina to provide warlike supplies and to aid in running cotton out through the blockade, and performed acts carrying out his contract, it was held that the acts were clearly treasonable.

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