‘Congress enacted a bill of attainder against him after gatekeepers called for his head.’
‘An analysis under the applicable standards for a bill of attainder show that this is clearly what the statutes are.’
‘It is a bill of attainder. disgusting for the congress to attempt to adjudicate an individual case.’
‘Parliament began to use bills of attainder in 1459 to exercise judicial authority.’
‘A reader has suggested to me that Prop. 64, so applied, is an unconstitutional bill of attainder.’
‘Not all bills of attainder were aimed at upstarts like Haxey or rebels like Cade.’
‘The statutes which the Supreme Court has found to be bills of attainder were enactments that penalized individuals to one degree or another for some immutable past behavior or affiliation.’
‘‘Congress violated the constitutional prohibition against bills of attainder by singling out plaintiff for legislative punishment,’ the court said.’
‘There Shall Be No Bill of Attainder or ex Post Facto Laws. - No bill of attainder or ex post facto law, retroactive law, or any other law impairing the obligation of contracts.’
‘No bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law impairing the obligation of contracts, or making any irrevocable grant of special privileges or immunities shall be passed.’
‘When the Constitution was adopted, bills of attainder and bills of pains and penalties were well known in the English law.’
‘No bill of attainder, ex post facto law, retroactive law, or laws impairing the obligation of contract or making irrevocable grant of special privileges or immunities shall be passed.’
‘Certainly the confiscation of property has always been one of the aspects of administering a bill of attainder, and it should not be allowed in American justice.’
‘In sentencing him, the Parliament has essentially revived the institution of the bill of attainder.’
‘In May 1660, certain regicides were also served with bills of attainder even though they were dead - Oliver Cromwell and John Bradshaw (the judge at Charles I trial) were the most famous.’
‘Does this Constitution any where grant the power of suspending the habeas corpus, to make ex post facto laws, pass bills of attainder, or grant titles of nobility?’
‘The ruling also marked a rare application of the constitutional prohibition on bills of attainder - essentially a legislative decision to inflict punishment on a specific individual.’
‘They stand for the proposition that legislative acts, no matter what their form, that apply either to named individuals or to easily ascertainable members of a group in such a way as to inflict punishment on them without a judicial trial are bills of attainder prohibited by the Con- [328 U.S.303, 316] situation.’
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