What does "treason" mean?
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Treason is the crime of betraying your country, for example by helping its enemies or by trying to remove its government using violence. the crime of being disloyal to your country or its government, especially by helping its enemies or trying to remove the government using violence treason against (traison, from traditio , from tradere; TRAITOR). Offense of attempting to overthrow the government of one's country or of assisting its enemies in war. In the U.S., the framers of the Constitution defined treason narrowly as the levying of war against the U.S. or the giving of aid and comfort to its enemies in order to lessen the possibility that those in power might falsely or loosely charge their political opponents with treason. See also sedition
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