Wei,
If your goal is to understand Pound (and not merely to hang him out to dry
for his political sins) then you should investigate further why he felt the
US Constitution had been betrayed.  You dismissed this sense of betrayal out
of hand as "an odd defense" coming as it did from someone who had been
indicted for treason.  But if you're going to get into the head of this
"traitor" you have to plumb his notions of civic loyalty and duty.
Tim Romano