[an amused spectator]

An ex post facto law (from the Latin for "from something done afterward") or retrospective law, is a law that retrospectively changes the legal consequences of acts committed or the legal status of facts and relationships that existed prior to the enactment of the law...

Generally speaking, ex post facto laws are seen as a violation of the rule of law as it applies in a free and democratic society...

"The sentiment that ex post facto laws are against natural right is so strong in the United States, that few, if any, of the State constitutions have failed to proscribe them. The federal constitution indeed interdicts them in criminal cases only; but they are equally unjust in civil as in criminal cases, and the omission of a caution which would have been right, does not justify the doing what is wrong. Nor ought it to be presumed that the legislature meant to use a phrase in an unjustifiable sense, if by rules of construction it can be ever strained to what is just." (Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Isaac McPherson, August 13th, 1813)

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The Founders would be astonished at the modern Democrat Party.

[IrishMike]

The Founders would be astonished at the modern Democrat Party.
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They are not alone, judging by approval numbers for Congress.

[SWEETSUNNYSOUTH]

“the founding fathers would be astonished by the modern Democratic party”

I think they would be arrested, tried for treason and hung until death!