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Author Logan, Wayne A

Title The Ex Post Facto Clause : Its History and Role in a Punitive Society
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, Inc., 2022

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Description 1 online resource (313 p.)
Series Studies Crime Amd Public Policy
Summary The Ex Post Facto Clause, one of the few civil liberty protections found in the body of the US Constitution, reflects the Framers' acute concern over the tendency of legislatures to enact burdensome retroactive laws targeting unpopular individuals. In The Ex Post Facto Clause, Wayne A. Logan provides the first book-length examination of the history of the Clause and its potential for tempering the punitive impulses of modern American legislatures. Drawing on Framing Era history, seminal Supreme Court decisions, and the global embrace of the values underlying the Ex Post Facto Clause, Logan pro
Subject Ex post facto laws -- United States
Ex post facto laws.
United States.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780190053512
0190053518