Sentences with phrase «constitute treason»

It would be hard to imagine a fact pattern in which mere failure to perform his duties would constitute treason, although I wouldn't necessarily say that it is categorically impossible that such fact pattern might exist.

The US could arrest him and put him on a wanted list if he does so (since this is likely to constitute treason), but the US can't really do anything about him.

Not exact matches

The essays gathered in The Twilight of the Intellectuals, most of which were first published in the New Criterion, constitute a mordant retrospective on what Julien Benda early in the twentieth century called la trahison des clercs — the treason committed by modern intellectuals (who were mostly middle - class writers, scholars, and artists) against the principles and institutions that had nurtured them.

First of all, the existence of any such plans would arguably constitute high treason against the monarch.

Though the Constitution specifies that impeachment is for «treason, bribery, and other high crimes and misdemeanors», the Supreme Court has determined in Nixon v. US that the specifics of the impeachment process constitutes a political question.

The House is pretty much free to decide what constitutes an impeachable offense («treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors» is the formal list in our Constitution).