 | Wallace McClure - 1916 - 520 pages
...SEC. 11. No ex post facto laws. — That laws made for the punishment of acts 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. SEC.... | |
 | North Carolina - 1917 - 712 pages
...the genius of a free State and ought not to be allowed. SEC. 32. Retrospective laws, punishing acts committed before the existence of such laws, and by...unjust and incompatible with liberty; wherefore no ex font facto law ought to be made. Xo law taxing retrospectively sales, purchases, or other acts previously... | |
 | William Montgomery Meigs - 1919 - 300 pages
...taking place ; they argued that it being an article of our bill of rights, that retrospective laws are oppressive, unjust, and incompatible with liberty,...wherefore no ex post facto law ought to be made, the Assembly had clearly exceeded the limits of the power which the people in whom all political power... | |
 | Gustavus W. Dyer - 1919 - 298 pages
...jeopardy of life or limb. SEC. 11. That laws made for the punishment of acts 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. SEC.... | |
 | 1921 - 512 pages
...the genius of a free State and ought not to be allowed. SEC. 32. Retrospective laws, punishing acts committed before the existence of such laws, and by...unjust and incompatible with liberty; wherefore no ex ftost facto law ought to be made. No law taxing retrospectively sales, purchases, or other acts previously... | |
 | Maryland. Constitutional Convention - 1923 - 704 pages
...over without amendment. Article 17 was then read, as follows: "That retrospective laws punishing acts committed before the existence of such laws, and by...wherefore, no ex post facto law ought to be made." Mr. Jones moved to amend by inserting at the end of the paragraph the words, "nor any retrospective... | |
 | North Carolina - 1923 - 730 pages
...committed before Ex post facto the existence of such laws, and liy them only declared criminal, ttw8' are oppressive, unjust and incompatible with liberty...; wherefore no ex post facto law ought to be made. Xo law taxing retrospectively sales, purchase's, or other acts previously done, ought to be passed.... | |
 | John Trotwood Moore, Austin Powers Foster - 1923 - 1010 pages
...jeopardy of life or limb. Sec. 11. That laws made for the punishment of acts 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. Sec.... | |
 | 1881 - 572 pages
...applicable; thus, those of Maryland and North Carolina declare "that retrospective laws, punishing acts committed before the existence of such laws, and by...oppressive, unjust and incompatible with liberty. Therefore, no ex post facto law ought to be made." One clause in this paragraph prevents the inclusion... | |
 | North Carolina - 1919 - 686 pages
...the genius of a free State and ought not to be allowed. SEC. 32. Retrospective laws, punishing acts committed before the existence of such laws, and by...liberty; wherefore no ex post facto law ought to be made. No law taxing retrospectively sales, purchases, or other acts previously done, ought to be passed.... | |
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That 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, nor any retrospective oath... 
