 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 131by Daniel Webster - 1830 - 520 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Andrew White Young - 1839 - 384 pages
...to pass them is with the same degree of propriety prohibited to the states as to congress. § 449. Laws impairing the obligation of contracts are contrary to the first principles of civil society. The pri rights of every member of the community could not t" cure under any government... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - 1852 - 528 pages
...from the states, on the same principle with that of issuing a paper currency. 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 against... | |
 | Levi Woodbury - 1852 - 444 pages
...martial law is only still baser and more intolerable than bills of attainder) Mr. Madison denounces, as " contrary to the first principles of the social compact, and to every principle of sound legislation." (Federalist, No. 44.) In short, then, there was nothing peculiar in the condition of Rhode Island as... | |
 | Levi Woodbury - 1852 - 435 pages
...martial law is only still baser and more intolerable than bills of attainder) Mr. Madison denounces, as " contrary to the first principles of the social compact, and to every principle of sound legislation.7' (Federalist, No. 44.) In short, then, there was nothing peculiar in the condition of... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1853 - 566 pages
...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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Tefft - 1854 - 554 pages
...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... | |
 | Benjamin Robbins Curtis, United States. Supreme Court - 1864 - 772 pages
...martial law is only still baser and more intolerable than bills of attainder) Mr. Madison denounces, as " contrary to the first principles of the social compact, and to every principle of sound legislation." Federalist, No. 44. In short, then, there was nothing peculiar in the condition of Rhode Island as... | |
 | Henry Barton Dawson - 1863 - 770 pages
...from the States, on the same principle with that of issuing a paper currency. 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... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - 1864 - 772 pages
...from the States, on the same principle with that of issuing a paper currency. 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... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - 1864 - 850 pages
...from the states, on the same principle with that of issuing a paper currency. 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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