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... ex post facto and discriminatory and therefore unconstitutional , may I state generally why it should not be passed , even if it was within the power of Congress to pass such a bill . This Harness bill is directed against only one man ...
... ex post facto and discriminatory and therefore unconstitutional , may I state generally why it should not be passed , even if it was within the power of Congress to pass such a bill . This Harness bill is directed against only one man ...
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... ex post facto legis- lation . The Constitution of the United States contains two provisions relat- ing to ex post facto laws . Article I , section 9 , of the Constitution , relating to the powers of Congress , states in part : No bill ...
... ex post facto legis- lation . The Constitution of the United States contains two provisions relat- ing to ex post facto laws . Article I , section 9 , of the Constitution , relating to the powers of Congress , states in part : No bill ...
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... ex post facto prohibition in the Constitution , said : The prohibition against their making any ex post facto law was introduced for greater caution , and very probably arose from the knowledge that the Par- liament of Great Britain ...
... ex post facto prohibition in the Constitution , said : The prohibition against their making any ex post facto law was introduced for greater caution , and very probably arose from the knowledge that the Par- liament of Great Britain ...
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... ex post facto laws and bills of attainder . It is for these reasons I ask that this Harness bill be disapproved by this committee . The CHAIRMAN . We will now hear from Congressman Harness . STATEMENT OF HON . FOREST A. HARNESS , MEMBER ...
... ex post facto laws and bills of attainder . It is for these reasons I ask that this Harness bill be disapproved by this committee . The CHAIRMAN . We will now hear from Congressman Harness . STATEMENT OF HON . FOREST A. HARNESS , MEMBER ...
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... ex post facto law or bill of attainder may be passed by Congress . This is in no sense an ex post facto law or bill of attainder ; it adds no punishment . The offense for which this man was convicted was premeditated on his part ; his ...
... ex post facto law or bill of attainder may be passed by Congress . This is in no sense an ex post facto law or bill of attainder ; it adds no punishment . The offense for which this man was convicted was premeditated on his part ; his ...
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Pagina 21 - SEC. 1998. That every person who hereafter deserts the military or naval service of the United States, or who, being duly enrolled, departs the jurisdiction of the district in which he is enrolled, or goes beyond the limits of the United States, with intent to avoid any draft into the military or naval service, lawfully ordered, shall be liable to all the penalties and forfeitures of section nineteen hundred and ninety-six...
Pagina 5 - An ex post facto law is one which renders an act punishable in a manner in which it was not punishable when it was committed.
Pagina 5 - Every law that alters the legal rules of evidence and receives less or different testimony than the law required at the time of the commission of the offense, in order to convict the offender.
Pagina 5 - Bills of this sort," says Mr. Justice Story, " have been most usually passed in England in times of rebellion, or gross subserviency to the crown, or of violent political excitements ; periods in which all nations are most liable (as well the free as the enslaved) to forget their duties, and to trample upon the rights and liberties of others.
Pagina 27 - An immigrant born in the United States who has lost his United States citizenship shall be considered as having been born in the country of which he is a citizen or subject...
Pagina 5 - The ground for the exercise of such legislative power was this,- that the safety of the kingdom depended on the death, or other punishment, of the offender ; as if traitors, when discovered, could be so formidable, or the government so insecure ! With very few exceptions, the advocates of such laws were stimulated by ambition, or personal resentment and vindictive malice. To prevent such and similar acts of violence and injustice, I believe the federal and state legislatures were prohibited from...
Pagina 5 - I will state what laws I consider ex post facto laws, within the words and the intent of the prohibition. 1st. Every law that makes an action done before the passing of the law, and which was innocent when done, criminal; and punishes such action. 2d. Every law that aggravates a crime, or makes it greater than it was, when committed. 3d. Every law that changes the punishment...
Pagina 26 - ... of April, 1865, and who, without proper authority or leave first obtained, quit his command or refused to serve after that date, shall be held to be a deserter from the army or navy; but this section shall be construed solely as a removal of any disability such soldier or sailor may have incurred, under the preceding section, by the loss of citizenship and of the right to hold office. in consequence of his desertion.
Pagina 26 - No soldier or sailor, however, who faithfully served according to his enlistment until the 19th day of April, 1865, and who, without proper authority or leave first obtained, quit his command or refused to serve after that date, shall be held to be a deserter from the Army or Navy; but this section shall be construed solely as a removal of any disability such soldier or sailor may have incurred, under the preceding...
Pagina 27 - States shall be considered as having been born in the country of which he is a citizen or subject, or If he Is not a citizen or subject of any country then in the...