Thank God the Framers were both smart and true lovers of liberty.
"As treason may be committed against the United States, the authority of the United States ought to be enabled to punish it. But as new-fangled and artificial treasons have been the great engines by which violent factions, the natural offspring of free government, have usually wreaked their alternate malignity on each other, the convention have, with great judgement, opposed a barrier to this peculiar danger, by inserting a constitutional definition of the crime, fixing the proof necessary for conviction of it, and restraining the Congress, even in punishing it, from extending the consequences of guilt beyond the person of its author." Madison, The Federalist Papers, No. 43.
That you and Patzi so love to scream "traitor" at those who's opinions you don't like and would like to silence only proves that you either don't understand the first thing about liberty and what America stands for, or you don't give a damn about liberty. |
