Bill of Attainder

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1. What is a bill of attainder?
2. Which institutional boundary is protected by the ban on bills of attainder?
3. Can a legislative act imposing a punitive fine without judicial trial fall within the attainder prohibition even though…
4. A statute declares three named people guilty of an offense and directs immediate collection of a punitive fine, express…
5. A general statute defines prohibited conduct and requires a court to determine all elements and guilt through trial. Do…
6. A law avoids listing names but identifies everyone who held a specified post on one past date, an easily ascertainable …
7. A congressional committee hears witnesses, permits short statements by several targets, and reports that they committed…
8. A law identifies former members of a named committee, declares them guilty of corruption and directs imprisonment witho…
9. Compare a statute declaring named individuals guilty and fining them without trial with a general statute defining cond…
10. Congress holds a public investigation and then enacts a law imprisoning the persons its committee found culpable, dispe…
11. Does filing an Information itself constitute a legislative determination of guilt?
12. Must all stated attainder elements be examined, including punishment and absence of judicial trial?