 | Constitutions - 1804 - 372 pages
...put in jeopardy of life or limb. XI. That laws made for the punishment of facts committed previous to the existence of such laws, and by them only declared criminal, are contrary to the principles of a free government ; wherefore, no ex post facto law shall be made. XII.... | |
 | Henry Potter - Justices of the peace - 1816 - 474 pages
...state, and ought not to be allowed. XXIV. That retrospective laws, punishing1 facts committed before the existence of such laws, and by them only declared...unjust, and incompatible with liberty, wherefore no expostfucto Jaw ought to be made. < XXV. The property of the soil in a free government, being one of... | |
 | Maryland. Convention - Congresses and conventions - 1836 - 404 pages
...any case, or at any time hereafter. " 15. That retrospective laws, punishing facts committed before the existence of such laws, and by them only declared...; wherefore no ex post facto law ought to be made. " 16. That no law to attaint particular persons of treason or felony, ought to be made in any case,... | |
 | John Marshall - Constitutional law - 1839 - 762 pages
...by the convention of Maryland, article 15th, " Retrospective laws, punishing facts committed before the existence of such laws, and by them only declared criminal, are oppressive," &.c. In the declaration of rights by the convention of North Carolina, article 24th, I find the same... | |
 | Constitutions - 1843 - 434 pages
...in any case, or at any time hereafter. 15. That retrospectixe laws, punishing facts committed before the existence of such laws, and by them only declared...incompatible with liberty ; wherefore, no ex post factotum ought to be made. 16. That no law to attaint particular persons of treason or felony, ought... | |
 | New York (State). Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1846 - 410 pages
...laws, punishing acts committed before the existence of such laws, and by them only declared penal or criminal, are oppressive, unjust, and incompatible with liberty ; wherefore no ex post facto law shall ever be made. 19. That no law impairing the obligation of contracts shall ever be passed. 20.... | |
 | E. Fitch Smith - Constitutional law - 1848 - 1040 pages
...free state, and ought not to be allowed. " That retrospective laws, punishing facts committed before the existence of such laws, and by them only declared...wherefore, no ex post facto law ought to be made." Section thirty-four of the constitution provides : " That there shall be no establishment of any one... | |
 | E. Fitch Smith - Constitutional law - 1848 - 1004 pages
...put in jeopardy of life or limb*. " That laws made for the punishment of facts committed previous to the existence of such laws, and by them only declared criminal, are contrary to the principles of a free government; wherefore no ex post facto law shall be made. " That... | |
 | John Bigelow - Constitutions - 1848 - 538 pages
...put in jeopardy of life or limb. 11. That laws made for the punishment of facts committed previous to the existence of such laws, and by them only declared criminal, are contrary to the principles of a free government ; wherefore no ex post facto law shall be made. 12.... | |
 | Maryland. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1850 - 946 pages
...any case, or at any time hereafter. Art. 15. That retrospective laws, punishing acts committed before the existence of such laws, and by them only declared...wherefore, no ex post facto law ought to be made. Art. 16. That no law to attaint particular persons of treason or felony, ought to be made in any case,... | |
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Retrospective laws, punishing acts committed before the existence of such laws, and by them only declared criminal, are oppressive, unjust and incompatible with liberty; wherefore no ex post facto law ought to be made. 
