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AID AND COMFORTAID AND COMFORT. The constitution of the United States, art. 8, s. 3, declares, that adhering to the
enemies of the United States, giving them aidand comfort, shall be treason. These words, as they are to be understood inthe constitution, have not received a full judicial
construction. Theyimport, however, help, support, assistance, countenance, encouragement. Theword aid, which occurs in the Stat. West. 1, c. 14, is explained by LordCoke
(2 just. 182) as comprehending all persons counselling, abetting,plotting, assenting, consenting, and encouraging to do the act, (and headds, what is not applicable to the
Crime to treason,) who are not presentwhen the act is done, See, also, 1 Burn's Justice, 5, 6; 4 Bl. Com. 37, 38.
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