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- noun Plural form of
attainder .
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Examples
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On the other hand if we amend the Constitution to allow bills of attainders, then due process would have been followed.
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Can Congress avoid bill of attainders rules just by phrasing it as a declaration ofwar?
The Volokh Conspiracy » Opinio Juris Discussions of Targeting of US Citizen 2010
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On the other hand if we amend the Constitution to allow bills of attainders, then due process would have been followed.
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Can Congress avoid bill of attainders rules just by phrasing it as a declaration ofwar?
The Volokh Conspiracy » Opinio Juris Discussions of Targeting of US Citizen 2010
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With unlimited power to award pay raises, bonuses, and pay cuts based on political ideology, including clawback provisions and ex post facto powers, with waivers on any bill of attainders problems.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Merit-Based Pay Cuts for Academics? 2009
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On October 17, 1710, the General Court, passed an act, that "the several convictions, judgments, and attainders be, and hereby are, reversed, and declared to be null and void."
History of American Women Maggiemac 2008
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This was the commencement of the second Rebellion; and it was seconded with as pure a spirit of devotion to the cause, as exalted an enthusiasm, as if none had bled on the scaffold in the previous reign, or attainders and forfeitures had never visited with poverty and ruin the adherents of James Stuart.
Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II. Mrs. Thomson
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The year 1739 witnessed the revival of the Jacobite Association, which had been annihilated by the attainders and exiles of its members after the last Rebellion.
Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II. Mrs. Thomson
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Some past attainders were also reversed, and the Archbishop, as well as Lady Jane, her husband, and one of his brothers, were attainted, though not, it would seem, with any present intention of inflicting the full penalty.
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Perhaps out of gratitude for all this royal favour, Coventry adhered to the Lancastrian cause and in 1459 was chosen as the meeting place for the "Parliamentum Diabolicum," so called from the number of attainders passed against the Yorkists.
The Churches of Coventry A Short History of the City & Its Medieval Remains Frederick W. Woodhouse
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