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" Bills of attainder, ex post facto laws, and laws impairing the obligation of contracts are contrary to the first principles of the social compact, and to every principle of sound legislation. The two former are expressly prohibited by the declarations... "
Speeches and Forensic Arguments - Page 131
by Daniel Webster - 1830 - 520 pages
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New Harlem Past and Present: The Story of an Amazing Civic Wrong, Now at ...

Carl Horton Pierce - Harlem (New York, N.Y.) - 1903 - 456 pages
...wrote the Federalist. In the 44th number of that work, p. 281, it is said that "bills of attainder, ex post facto laws, and laws impairing the obligation...of them are prohibited by the spirit and scope of these fundamental charters. Our own experience has taught us, nevertheless, that additional defences...
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American orators

Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1903 - 464 pages
...clearness and force by one of the distinguished persons who framed that instrument. "Bills of attainder, ex post facto laws, and laws impairing the obligation...of them are prohibited by the spirit and scope of these fundamental charters. Our own experience has taught us, nevertheless, that additional fences...
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Legal Masterpieces: Specimens of Argumentation and Exposition by ..., Volume 1

Van Vechten Veeder - Forensic orations - 1903 - 656 pages
...force by one of the distinguished persons who framed that instrument : "Bills of attainder, ex fost facto laws, and laws impairing the obligation of contracts...of them are prohibited by the spirit and scope of these fundamental charters. Our own experience has taught us. nevertheless, that additional fences...
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The Supreme Court of the United States: Its Place in the Constitution

Joseph Hodges Choate - 1903 - 96 pages
...with Bills of Attainder and Ex post facto laws, which are prohibited by the same clause, says : — " Laws impairing the obligation of contracts are contrary...compact, and to every principle of sound legislation. They are prohibited by the spirit and scope of the State Constitutions. Our own experience has taught...
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United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court, Volume 110

United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - Courts - 1904 - 830 pages
...one of the articles in the Federalist, declared that laws impairing the obligation of contracts were contrary to the first principles of the social compact, and to every principle of sound legislation. Yet this court holds that a measure directly operating upon and necessarily impairing private contracts,...
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Journal of Comparative Legislation and International Law

Comparative law - 1905 - 548 pages
...by the same clause, says : — Laws impairing the obligation of contracts are contrary to the 6rst principles of the social compact, and to every principle of sound legislation. They are prohibited by the spirit and scope of the State Constitutions. Our own experience has taught...
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A Treatise on the Law of National and State Banks: Including the Clearing ...

Harvey White Magee - Banking law - 1906 - 864 pages
...last mentioned, Mr. Madison said that such laws were not only forbidden by the Constitution, but were contrary to the first principles of the social compact...and to every principle of sound legislation. " The treatment of the malady was severe, but the cure was complete. No sooner did the new government begin...
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Selected Opinions of Luther S. Dixon and Edward G. Ryan: Late Chief Justices ...

Luther S. Dixon - Judges - 1907 - 640 pages
...Federalist, No. 43, thus explains the policy and objects to this provision: "Bills of attainder, ex post facto laws, and laws impairing the obligation...legislation. The two former are expressly prohibited by declarations prefixed to some of the state constitutions, and all of them are prohibited by the spirit...
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Abraham Lincoln And Other Addresses In England

Joseph H. Choate - 1910 - 318 pages
...with Bills of Attainder and Ex post facto laws, which are prohibited by the same clause, says: — " Laws impairing the obligation of contracts are contrary...compact, and to every principle of sound legislation. They are prohibited by the spirit and scope of the State Constitutions. Our own experience has taught...
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Abraham Lincoln, and Other Addresses in England

Joseph Hodges Choate - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1910 - 320 pages
...with Bills of Attainder and Ex post facto laws, which are prohibited by the same clause, says: — " Laws impairing the obligation of contracts are contrary...compact, and to every principle of sound legislation. They are prohibited by the spirit and scope of the State Constitutions. Our own experience has taught...
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