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To: DakotaRed
A bill of attainder (also known as an act or writ of attainder) is an act of legislature declaring a person or group of persons guilty of some crime and punishing them without benefit of a trial. Bills of attainder are forbidden by Article I, section 9, clause 3 of the United States Constitution.
21 posted on 03/19/2009 12:11:22 PM PDT by pabianice
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To: pabianice
A bill of attainder (also known as an act or writ of attainder) is an act of legislature declaring a person or group of persons guilty of some crime and punishing them without benefit of a trial. Bills of attainder are forbidden by Article I, section 9, clause 3 of the United States Constitution.

This is not a "bill of attainder", not technically. It's tax law and not criminal law, so it's not a violation of that clause in the Constitution. It's evil. It's stealing. It's grandstanding for the looters on the far left socialist wing of the democrat party. It's not unconstitutional except as a violation of the 9th and 10th Amendments, which are routinely ignored.

Amendment IX: The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

Amendment X: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.

54 posted on 03/19/2009 12:17:40 PM PDT by TurtleUp (Turtle up: cancel optional spending until 2012, and boycott TARP/stimulus companies forever!)
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To: pabianice

Hope you don’t mind, I just quoted that in my email to my rep (Paul Hodes)

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Nice job on the AIG bonus bill today. I thought you studied law:

A bill of attainder (also known as an act or writ of attainder) is an act of legislature declaring a person or group of persons guilty of some crime and punishing them without benefit of a trial. Bills of attainder are forbidden by Article I, section 9, clause 3 of the United States Constitution.

Maybe you should read the constitution instead of just betraying it blindly time after time.


57 posted on 03/19/2009 12:20:13 PM PDT by xmission (www.iwilldefendtheconstitution.com)
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