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You couldn’t be more wrong if you tried. Did you even read the Constitution before you pronounced your nonsense?

Article 1, Section 10: “No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility.”

Article 1, Section 9 applies to the Federal Government, Article 1, Section 10 specifically limits the States and applies to the States by its very terms. The “no bill of attainder or ex post facto” prohibition applies equally to the States and the Federal Government.

In fact, prior to the Bill of Rights, these are the only two individual liberties that the original Constitution protects from both federal and state intrusion.

James Madison outlined: “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.”