{"id":1711,"date":"2009-05-15T13:57:48","date_gmt":"2009-05-15T17:57:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.duke.edu\/blogs\/answerperson\/?p=1711"},"modified":"2011-03-24T15:52:20","modified_gmt":"2011-03-24T15:52:20","slug":"constitutionally-prohibited-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/answerperson\/2009\/05\/15\/constitutionally-prohibited-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"Constitutionally prohibited laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Explain the nature of the laws that Congress may not pass<br \/>\nincluding: writs of habeas corpus; bills of attainder; ex post facto laws<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Suspending writs of habeas corpus (with certain exceptions), enacting bills of attainder, and enacting ex post facto laws are prohibited by Ariticle I, Section 9, Clauses 2 and 3 of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gpoaccess.gov\/constitution\/pdf2002\/011.pdf\">U.S. Constitution<\/a>.\u00a0 In the annotated version of the Constitution linked to from here, there is much discussion of the legal issues involved.\u00a0 Please see pages 363 through 371 in the book (pages 309-317 of the .pdf).\u00a0 As a librarian, Answer Person can&#8217;t give any legal interpretation, but the sources noted should lead you to volumes of information on the topics.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Explain the nature of the laws that Congress may not pass including: writs of habeas corpus; bills of attainder; ex post facto laws Suspending writs of habeas corpus (with certain exceptions), enacting bills of attainder, and enacting ex post facto laws are prohibited by Ariticle I, Section 9, Clauses 2 and 3 of the U.S. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/answerperson\/2009\/05\/15\/constitutionally-prohibited-laws\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Constitutionally prohibited laws<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/answerperson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/answerperson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/answerperson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/answerperson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/86"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/answerperson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/answerperson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6566,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/answerperson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711\/revisions\/6566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/answerperson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/answerperson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/answerperson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}