"Whom Can We Trust Now?"

Author: Brian F. Carso (Jr.)
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 9780739112564
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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Book Description
The ancient crime of treason posed legal, political, and intellectual problems for the United States from its conception through the Civil War. Using an interdisciplinary approach, historian and lawyer Brian F. Carso, Jr., demonstrates that although treason law was conflicted and awkward, the broader idea of treason gave recognizable shape to abstract ideas of loyalty, betrayal, allegiance, and political obligation in a young democratic republic.