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... to him, the 1981 amendment constituted an ex post facto law barred by the United States Constitution...I, § 9, cl. 3 ("No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed"...
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One hundred fifty years ago, April 12, 1861, Edmund Ruffin proudly fired a shot at Fort Sumter, the federal military installation in the Charleston, S.C., harbor. Almost ceremonially it began the Civil War. Four years and more than 600,000 dead Americans later, Ruffin fired what has been called the last shot of the war when he killed himself, so distressed was he that his beloved Confederacy had lost.
History is written by the winners, the old adage goes. But in the case of the American Civil War that hasn't been quite true. In the decades after the war, the interpretation of it by Southerners and Southern sympathizers dominated our historical understanding. Those writers couldn't turn defeat into military victory on the page, of course, so instead they recast the meaning of the war, tr...
..., makes the centrality of slavery clear: "No bill of attainder, ex-post facto law, or law denying or...
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...Paragraph X. Bill of attainder; ex post facto laws; and retroactive ...
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No bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law impairing ...
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... Section 9 provides in pertinent part that "a bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law impairing ...
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No bill of attainder, ex post facto law or law impairing t...
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... . Clause 3. Bills of Attainder and Ex Post Facto Laws . Clause 3. ...