...debts, is withdrawn from the states, on the same principle with that of striking of paper currency. 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....

...exhibited with great clearness and force by one of the distinguished persons who framed that instrument. " 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....

...exclusively, to bills of attainder. The next class of prohibitions contained in this section, consists of bills of attainder, ex post facto laws, and laws impairing the obligation of contracts. But if it were deemed wise and proper to prohibit State legislation as to retrospective laws, which...

...in effect to expunge that distinct and independent prohibition t(rem the Constitution. '5. . ' 771. Bills of Attainder, ex post facto Laws, and Laws impairing the obligation of Contracts, are con.trary to the first principles of the, social Contract, and to every principle of sound legislation...

...of debts, is withdrawn from the states, on the same principle with that of issuing a paper currency. 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 legislatio»....

...KK Moulton. "Law impairing the obligation of a contract." "The federalist very justly observes that bills of attainder, ex post facto laws, and laws impairing the obligation of contracts, are contrary to the just principles of the social compact, and to every principle of sound Legislation....

...which have a retrospective operation. The next class of prohibitions contained in this section consists of bills of attainder, ex post facto laws, and laws impairing the obligation of contracts. Here, too, we observe, as I think, members of the same family brought together in the most intimate...

...recurrence of those evils, which had been found from experience to attend the practice, a dead letter.* 3d. Bills of attainder, ex post facto laws, and laws impairing the obligation of contracts, are contrary to the first principles of the social contract, and to every principle of sound legislation....

...the legislature to enact laws operating upon past transactions, are those which forbid the passage of bills of attainder, ex post facto laws, and laws impairing the obligation of contracts. The first prohibition is too evidently out of the question on the present occasion, to need comment....

...of debts, is withdrawn from the states, on the same principle with that of issuing a paper currency. 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....