ex post factoin a sentence
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"Ex post facto, Your Honor," exclaimed Bellagrog, pounding the table.† (source)
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What ex post facto lessons of history?† (source)
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For example, the legislature cannot pass bills of attainder or ex post facto laws.† (source)
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By our standards that crime arose under an ex post facto law.† (source)
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A noble use of them had, however, been made, and again I was compelled to deal with the result in ex post facto manner.† (source)
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No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed.† (source)
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For any state to make sex a qualification that must ever result in the disfranchisement of one entire half of the people, is to pass a bill of attainder, or, an ex post facto law, and is therefore a violation of the supreme law of the land.† (source)
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It is probable that both these representations were of ex post facto origin; the young gentleman (whose expressive name was Sparkler) being monomaniacal in offering marriage to all manner of undesirable young ladies, and in remarking of every successive young lady to whom he tendered a matrimonial proposal that she was 'a doosed fine gal—well educated too—with no biggodd nonsense about her.'† (source)
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No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed.† (source)
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The States are prohibited from making ex post facto laws in criminal cases, and any person condemned by virtue of a law of this kind can appeal to the judicial power of the Union.† (source)
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Ex POST FACTO.† (source)
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Bills of Attainder, Ex Post Facto Laws† (source)
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And when the Constitution commanded no "ex post facto laws," Bob Taft accepted this precept as permanently wise and universally applicable.† (source)
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No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility.† (source)
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No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque or Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility.† (source)
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No State shall enter into any treaty, alliance, or confederation; grant letters of marque and reprisal; coin money; emit bills of credit; make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts; pass any bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law impairing the obligation of contracts, or grant any title of nobility.† (source)
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