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Examples of bill of attainder
bill of attainder
Parliament rejected this argument, and the king assented to the bill of attainder.
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Since this law applies to sixty persons, cited by name, is it not a bill of attainder?
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A bill of attainder is a law by which a person is immediately convicted without trial.
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Singling out a group for taxation in the U.S. is an unconstitutional bill of attainder.
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It was also possible, as political fortunes turned, for a bill of attainder to be reversed.
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This law has been challenged as a bill of attainder by the shipping division of ExxonMobil.
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This was rejected by the Commons, who passed a bill of attainder.
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SeaRiver Maritime, Exxon's U.S. shipping subsidiary, argued that OPA amounted to a bill of attainder.
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In March 2010, a federal district court declared the funding ban an unconstitutional bill of attainder.
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