 | Constitutional law - 1802 - 344 pages
...debts, is withdrawn from the states, on the same principle with that of striking of paper currency. Bills of attainder, ex post facto laws, and laws impairing...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... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional history - 1817 - 570 pages
...states, on the 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 to the first principles of the social compact, and to every principle of sound legislation. The two former, are expressly prohibited by the... | |
 | James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional law - 1818 - 882 pages
...the states, on 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 to the first principles of the social compact, and to every principle of sound legislation. The two former are expressly prohibited by the... | |
 | James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional law - 1826 - 736 pages
...the states, on the same principle with that of issuing a paper currency. Bills of attainder, ex poit 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... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1827 - 682 pages
...regular course to the business of society." I cannot understand this language otherwise than as putting bills of attainder, ex post facto laws, and laws impairing the obligation of contracts, all upon the same footing, and deprecating them all for the same cause. The language shows, clearly,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Richard Peters - Court rules - 1829 - 758 pages
...writer has made no attempt at giving a distinct exposition of the phrase, as used in the constitution.- Bills of attainder, ex post facto laws, and laws impairing the obligation of contracts, are all considered together ; and regarded, as they really are, as forming together " a bulwark, in favour... | |
 | Daniel Webster - United States - 1830 - 518 pages
...exhibited with great clearness and force by one of the distinguished persons who framed that instrument. " Bills of attainder, ex post facto laws, and laws impairing...are contrary to the first principles of the social compact, and to every principle of sound legislation. The two former, are expressly prohihited by the... | |
 | Daniel Webster - United States - 1830 - 518 pages
...and force by one of the distinguished persons who framed that instrument. " Bills of attainder, er post facto laws, and laws impairing the obligation...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... | |
 | Maryland - Bankruptcy - 1831 - 256 pages
...exclusively, to bills of attainder. The next class of prohibitions contained in this section, consists of bills of attainder, ex post facto laws, and laws impairing the obligation of contracts. But if it were deemed wise and proper to prohibit State legislation as to retrospective laws, which... | |
 | 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 to the first principles of the social compact, and to every principle of sound legislation." 4 And the Federalist dwells on the suggestion,... | |
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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... 
