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 | Constitutional law - 1802 - 344 pages
...same principle with that of striking of paper currency. Bills of attainder, ex post facto laws, and laws impairing the obligation of contracts, are contrary...compact, and to every principle of sound legislation. The two former, are expressly prohibited by the declarations prefixed to some of the state constitutions,... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional history - 1817 - 570 pages
...same principle with that of striking of paper currency. Bills of attainder, ex pout facto laws, and laws impairing the obligation of contracts, are contrary...compact, and to every principle of sound legislation. The two former, are expressly prohibited by the declarations prefixed to some of the state constitutions,... | |
 | James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional law - 1818 - 882 pages
...the same principle with that of issuing a paper currency. Dills of attainder, ex poat facto laws, and laws impairing the obligation of contracts, are contrary...compact, and to every principle of sound legislation. The two former are expressly prohibited by the declarations prefixed to some of the state constitutions,... | |
 | Daniel Webster - United States - 1830 - 518 pages
...the distinguished persons who framed that instrument. " Bills of attainder, er post facto laws, and laws impairing the obligation of contracts, are contrary...compact, and to every principle of sound legislation. The two former, are expressly prohibited by the declarations prefixed to some of the state constitutions,... | |
 | Maryland - Bankruptcy - 1831 - 256 pages
...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 contracts, are contrary...compact, and to every principle of sound legislation. The two former• are expressly prohibited by the declarations prefixed to some of the State constitutions,... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - United States - 1831 - 758 pages
...the same principle with that of issuing a paper currency. Bills of attainder, ex post facto laws, and laws impairing the obligation of contracts, are contrary to the first principles of the social compact, nnd to every principle of sound legislation. The two former are expressly prohibited by the declarations... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1833 - 540 pages
...a voluntary sacrifice on the altar of justice of the power, which has been the instrument of it."8 "Laws impairing the obligation of contracts are contrary...compact, and to every principle of sound legislation." 4 And the Federalist dwells on the suggestion, that as such laws amount to an aggression on the rights... | |
 | William Alexander Duer - Constitutional law - 1833 - 260 pages
...and independent prohibition from the Constitution. 771. Bills of Attainder, ex pout faclo Laws, and Laws impairing the obligation of Contracts, are contrary to the first principles of the social Contract, and to every principle of sound legislation : the two former are also expressly prohibited... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional law - 1834 - 174 pages
...which are but varieties of the same general noxious policy. And they have been truly described, as contrary to the first principles of the social compact, and to every principle of sound legislation. § 169. The remaining prohibition is, to ' grant any title of nobility,' which is supported by the... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional history - 1837 - 516 pages
...the same principle with that of issuing a paper currency. Bills of attainder, ex post facto laws, and laws impairing the obligation of contracts, are contrary...the social compact, and to every principle of sound legislatio». The two former are expressly prohibited by the declarations prefixed to some of the state... | |
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