WHAT DOES CONGRESS DEFINE AS TREASON?

Question

please answer i need help in U.S. history NOW plz plz plz plz answer!!!

Answer 1

the definition changes depending on who is getting charged

Answer 2

Levying war against your own country.  Now mind you levying war is not the same as declaring war, which only congress can do.  levying war is doing anything against the people of this country or the country itself with intent to harm.  It could be as little as the president ordering troops or private security firms to disarm the american people.  (which has been done once in new orleans)  That's levying war against the people, you are using force to take away their right.  That is treason.  Also, aiding an abetting the enemy of this country.  So, when d**k chaney said that protesting bush is only helping the terrorist, that in a sense ammounted to treason.  He is assulting americans rights by levying war against them, basically, he was grouping dissent (protesting) as treason.  Claiming such thing against the peoples rights is levying war against the people, cause they could use that to prosecute you for treason.  however it is not treason.

Answer 3

"thedude jr" has given a good answer.

Certainly in the past, especially during the "McCarthy Era", anyone who believed in the US constitution of "all people are born equal with inalienable rights" was persecuted as a "communist" or a "communist sympathiser". The Republican Party was the greater persecutors with Richard Nixon (later President Nixon) as one of the prosecuting attorneys.