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1. Which pair of legislative enactments is expressly prohibited by Article III, Section 22?
2. What is the essential defect in a bill of attainder?
3. Which statement correctly describes the relation between Congress's general legislative authority and the Bill of Right…
4. A new penal statute makes a peaceful act criminal and directs prosecution of persons who completed that act while it wa…
5. Congress passes a law establishing one religious denomination as the official state church and requiring residents to s…
6. After televised committee hearings about suspected corruption, Congress enacts a statute naming six private contractors…
7. When Dario performed an act, the governing penal law set a maximum prison term of two years. Before his trial, Congress…
8. A legislator argues that because Congress has general legislative power, an express constitutional prohibition must yie…
9. Congress names a person guilty of fraud and orders punitive imprisonment after a committee inquiry, without a judicial …
10. Congress validly decides that conduct should be criminal in the future. It also orders punishment of persons who comple…
11. Which requirement accompanies a law increasing the Supreme Court’s appellate jurisdiction under Article VI, Section 30?
12. What does Article VI, Section 31 prohibit Congress from granting by law?