| 11. | Queen Catherine was condemned by a bill of attainder and executed on 13 February 1542.
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| 12. | A bill of attainder was then passed.
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| 13. | The prohibitions on ex post facto laws and on bills of attainder are obviously closely related.
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| 14. | A bill of attainder is a law by which a person is immediately convicted without trial.
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| 15. | He had lost his titles and property when Parliament voted a bill of attainder for treason.
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| 16. | First, the Court rejected the argument that the Act was an unconstitutional bill of attainder.
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| 17. | In my opinion, s27A has sufficient generality to avoid the characteristics of a bill of attainder.
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| 18. | The prohibition against bills of attainder, he said, is a limit on Congress'powers.
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| 19. | In March 2010, a federal district court declared the funding ban an unconstitutional bill of attainder.
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| 20. | In 2003, a federal appeals court ruled that the act was an unconstitutional bill of attainder.
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