Little information on Steiner is available, but a broadside for a lecture given by him identifies him as " National Sec ' y Rationalist Association " ( presumably the American Rationalist Association, which published his Religious Treason in the American Republic c. 1927 ).

A meaningful starting point, however, is 1688 – 9 when James II fled England and the Parliament of England confirmed William and Mary as joint constitutional monarchs, enacting legislation that limited their authority and that of their successors: the Bill of Rights ( 1689 ), the Mutiny Bill ( 1689 ), the Triennial Bill ( 1694 ), the Treason Act ( 1696 ) and the Act of Settlement ( 1701 ).

Section 12 of the Crimes Act 1900 ( NSW ) creates an offence which is derived from section 3 of the Treason Felony Act 1848:

Recollect that the first act of resistance to the laws which have been denounced as void by those who abuse your confidence and falsify your hopes is Treason, and subjects you to all the pains and penalties that are provided for the highest offence against your country.

* He is a minor character in the children's novel Cue for Treason by Geoffrey Trease, where he is portrayed positively.

For many leftists in Spain the surrender of Basque troops in Santoña ( Santander ) is known as the Treason of Santoña.

The importance of the office is reflected by the Treason Act 1351, which makes it high treason to slay the Lord Chancellor.

– I know not what Reason is if sapping and betraying the Liberties of a People be not Treason.

As of 2012, he is still writing the fifth book ( A Method For Madness ), and has contracted to write a sixth ( A Time For Treason ).

This event is referred as the Treason of Santoña by some Spanish leftists.

" ( His public image seems to be subject to the same kind of outrageous rumor, heresay and Boffo way of thinking that is not unlike the late Ramtops witch ; Eumenides Treason.

Treason ( including constructive treason ) is a reserved matter on which the Scottish Parliament cannot legislate.

Treason ( but not powers of arrest or criminal procedure ) is an excepted matter on which the Northern Ireland Assembly cannot legislate.

Miss Treason uses two sticks to walk and is both deaf and blind, but manages to get along by Borrowing the senses of those around her.

No witch actually has spiders ' webs in her cottage or keeps skulls for any reason, but most simple folk expect witches to do so, and so Miss Treason obliges them ; the better to ensure that when people come calling they don't see what is really there, ( a tired, blind 111-year-old woman ,) but what they expect, ( a venerable, terrifying 113-year-old witch.

During the events of Wintersmith, Annagramma is assigned her own cottage, taking over from the late Miss Treason.

This story is the basis for a short historical novel written for children by Gweneth Lilly, entitled Treason at Trefriw ( Gomer Press, 1993 ).

In the United States, the Speech or Debate Clause of Article One of the United States Constitution provides that members of Congress shall be immune from arrest in going to and departing from sessions and while Congress is in session except for cases of " Treason, Felony, and Breach of the Peace.

Under the Treason Act 1702 and the Treason ( Ireland ) Act 1703, it is treason to " endeavour to deprive or hinder any person who shall be the next in succession to the crown ... from succeeding ... to the imperial crown of this realm ".

The plot is known also as Watson's Plot, the Catholic Plot, or the Surprising Treason.

Another name is " Treason of the Priests ".

His third symphony, Ainulindalë, is based on the opening chapter of The Silmarillion, and there is also a half-hour setting of The Lay of Eärendil based on Bilbo's song at Rivendell ( in the expanded version published by Christopher Tolkien in The Treason of Isengard ).

* Treason against the state of Louisiana.

* Treason ( defined solely as levying war against the state or adhering to its enemies, giving them aid and comfort )

Within a few decades Gunpowder Treason Day, as it was known, became the predominant English state commemoration, but as it carried strong religious overtones it also became a focus for anti-Catholic sentiment.

Lysander Spooner's articles, such as No Treason and the Letter to Thomas Bayard, were widely reprinted in early anarcho-capitalist journals, and his ideas – especially his individualist critique of the state and his defense of the right to ignore or withdraw from it – were often cited by anarcho-capitalists.

As Madison noted, the Treason Clause also was designed to limit the power of the federal government to punish its citizens for “ adhering to United States ’ s enemies, giving them aid and comfort .”"

* June 2-The Treason Act 1939 becomes law: a sentence of death may be passed on anyone convicted of " levying war against the State.

In " High Treason " the protagonist disobeys orders and betrays his subordinates to prevent a war crime that would bring severe retribution upon Humanity.

On his capture at the end of the war, Parliament rushed through the Treason Act 1945 to facilitate a trial that would have the same procedure as a trial for murder.

The Treason Act 1495 provides that in a civil war between two claimants to the throne, those who fight for the losing side cannot be held guilty of a crime merely for fighting against the winner.

Stormer's main book None Dare Call It Treason argued that America was losing the cold war because it was being betrayed by its elites, who were procommunist.

Treason against the king was known as high treason and treason against a lesser superior was petty treason.

Lysander Spooner, a 19th century lawyer and staunch supporter of a right of contract between individuals, in his essay No Treason, argues that a supposed social contract cannot be used to justify governmental actions such as taxation, because government will initiate force against anyone who does not wish to enter into such a contract.

Armed with this evidence parliament published a long declaration against the Levellers and passed a motion to try Lilburne for High Treason, using a court similar to that which had tried Charles I.

After prime minister William McMahon threatened him with prosecution, Casley styled himself His Majesty Prince Leonard I of Hutt to take advantage of the British Treason Act 1495 ; that a self proclaimed monarch could not only not be guilty of any offence against the rightful ruler, but that anyone who interfered with his duties could be charged with treason.

The charges of sedition against him were replaced with the newly enacted charge of Treason Felony.

* An Invective against Treason ; I would and I would not ( 1614 )

The seditious conspiracy charge was dropped, but the men received suspended sentences for uttering seditious words and for offences against the Public Order Act .< ref name =" LC72 "> The Law Commission, Treason, Sedition and Allied Offences ( Working Paper No. 72 ), paragraph 47

Their ground of protest was to the effect that the Address contained ‘ Treason or Misprison of Treason against the Union with England ’.

" — from one of Helmuth Hübener's many pamphlets, subsequently also published in When Truth Was Treason: German Youth against Hitler, Editors Blair R. Holmes and Alan F. Keele.

* Articles of High Treason Exhibited against Cheapside Cross ( 1642 )