Article Section 3

Section 3 of article three defines treason and empowers congress to punish treason.
Article section 3. Treason against the united states shall consist only in levying war against them or in adhering to their enemies giving them aid and comfort. But no religious test shall ever be required as a. Nor any state be formed by the junction of two or more states or parts of states without the consent of the legislatures of the states concerned as well as of the.
Article 3 section 3. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act or on confession in open court. Article vi clause 3 the senators and representatives before mentioned and the members of the several state legislatures and all executive and judicial officers both of the united states and of the several states shall be bound by oath or affirmation to support this constitution.
New states may be admitted by the congress into this union. But no new states shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of any other state. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act or on confession in open court.
It also limits the ways in which congress can punish those convicted of treason. Section 3 requires that at least two witnesses testify to the treasonous act or that the individual accused of treason confess in open court. Article 4 the states section 3 new states back table of contents next.
Section 3 treason against the united states shall consist only in levying war against them or in adhering to their enemies giving them aid and comfort.