A bill of attainder (also known as an act of attainder, writ of attainder, or bill of penalties) is an act of a legislature declaring a person, or a group...
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Attainder by verdict resulted from conviction by jury. Attainder by process resulted from a legislative act outlawing a fugitive (a bill of attainder)...
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Contract Clause (redirect from Impairment of the obligation of contracts)
of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility. At the time of...
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Anne Boleyn (redirect from Anne Boleyn, 1st Marchioness of Pembroke)
1507 – 19 May 1536) was Queen of England from 1533 to 1536, as the second wife of King Henry VIII. The circumstances of her marriage and execution, by...
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impeachment, and brought in and passed a bill of attainder on 21 April by a vote of 204 to 59. Owing to the opposition of the Lords, and Pym's own preference...
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section of the first article declared, that the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless in cases of rebellion—that no bill of attainder, or ex...
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Renato Corona (category Associate justices of the Supreme Court of the Philippines)
is the passage of that to which the Senate president once warned—that we were veering close to a bill of attainder. A bill of attainder is a law passed...
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conspired with him. After his execution, all of Seymour's property was seized by the Crown. His attainder was reversed by Parliament in 1550, although...
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William E. Dodd Jr. (category University of Chicago alumni)
bill of attainder. Dodd was the son of William E. Dodd, who served as United States Ambassador to Germany between 1933 and 1938, and the brother of Martha...
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the bill of attainder passed against him, Clarence made a number of his servants swear personal loyalty to him and sent them into various parts of the...
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