...the States, on the same principle with that of issuing a paper currency. Bills of attainder, ex pout 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...

...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...every principle of sound legislation. The two former [ * 305 ] are expressly prohibited by the declarations prefixed * to some of the state constitutions,...

...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...

...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. § 238. Although the language of this clause, " law impairing the obligation of contracts," would seem,...

...obligation of contracts." Mr. Madison says of such laws, with others in the same connection, they " are contrary to the first principles of the social...compact, and to every principle of sound legislation." 1 The prohibition is taken substantially from the Ordinance of 1787, as drawn by Mr. Dane, where the...

...imposed upon every State government the same restriction. They considered laws of that character to be " contrary to the first principles of the social compact, and to every principle of sound legislation." So says Mr. Madison in the 44th number of the Federalist. In the same number he tells us that, however...

...obligation of contracts." Mr. Madison says of such laws, with others in the same connection, they " are contrary to the first principles of the social compact, and to every principle of sound legislation."1 The prohibition is taken substantially from the Ordinance of 1787, as drawn by Mr. Dane,...

...which are but varieties of the same general noxious policy. And they have Leen truly described, as contrary to the first principles of the social compact and to every principle of sound legislation. § 233. Although the language of this clause, " law impairing the obligation of contracts," would seem,...

...a State? Is a dishonest act any less dishonest because it was committed by Congress ? All such laws are contrary to the first principles of the social...compact, and to every principle of sound legislation. (Federalist, No. 39.) All contracts are property, and the obligation of contracts is property. They...

...Madison said that such laws were not only forbidden by the constitution , but were "contrary tothe 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...