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Why is it that an assassination plot to kill a presidential candidate not considered an act of treason?
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Not only is an assassination plot to kill a presidential candidate not considered treason, but an assassination plat to kill the actual president is not treason. Article III Section 1 Clause 1 of the Constitution defines treason this way: "Treason against the United States shall consist only of levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. " The assassination or murder of the person who is a president or candidate for president does not come within that definition. An assassin could argue that the assassination was done because he or she felt that the assassinated president was acting imprudently to the detriment of the country. In other words, the assassin could argue that he was being patriotic to the country by assassinating someone he or she thought would harm the country. In addition, the framers of the Constitution intended that there would be a distinction between the person running the country and the country itself. Treason was defined to be an offense against the country not against the person running the country. In countries ruled by monarchs, even verbal criticism of the monarch was considered treason because the monarch was the country and criticism of the monarch was criticism of the country. The Revolutionary War had been fought for the very purpose of being able to criticise the governing authority with being accused of treason.
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Yes
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Abraham Washington
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