| 21. | This claim was based on the constitutional prohibition against bills of attainder and ex post facto legislation.
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| 22. | The bill of attainder is an ancient and infamous device forbidden by the U . S . Constitution.
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| 23. | This, he said, violates the constitutional prohibitions against bills of attainder and ex post facto laws.
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| 24. | Bills of attainder are considered permissible because there is no entrenched separation of powers at the state level.
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| 25. | It was also possible, as political fortunes turned, for a bill of attainder to be reversed.
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| 26. | Can it be said, that congress may pass a bill of attainder for the district of Columbia?
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| 27. | Sir John Fenwick was convicted on a bill of attainder, and was executed on 28 January 1697.
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| 28. | Exxon claimed OPA was effectively a bill of attainder, a regulation that was unfairly directed at Exxon alone.
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| 29. | Parliament passed a bill of attainder against the ringleader, John Fenwick, and he was beheaded in 1697.
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| 30. | Since the Los Angeles ordinance permitted no hearing, it was a bill of attainder and not constitutionally valid.
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