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Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying ... or a servant’s or ecclesiastic’s killing his lord or master. High treason involved a breach between subject and sovereign ...

Englishman Guy Fawkes, convicted of high treason for his part in the “Gunpowder Plot,” was set to be hanged, drawn and quartered, but broke his neck after falling ...