| Governor Bush and his people have accused that court of in effect making an ex post facto law. |
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| The Constitution of the United States forbids Congress and the states to pass any ex post facto law. |
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| No ex post facto law or bill attainder shall be enacted. |
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| Conversely, a form of ex post facto law commonly called an amnesty law may decriminalize certain acts. |
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| The 1987 Constitution of the Philippines categorically prohibits the passing of any ex post facto law. |
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| Beginning with Virginia in 1662, each colony in North America worked out its own ex post facto law of slavery before independence, a process that continued after the creation of the United States and until the Civil War. |
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| But Mr. Porricelli sees the ruling as a constitutional violation — a decision based on an ex post facto law that deprived him retroactively of a right he already enjoyed. |
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| An ex post facto law was passed in the autumn of 1945 to permit prosecution for war responsibility, and eventually eight politicians were convicted. |
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| However, the above rule cannot apply in criminal cases if the effect of applying the newer law would be to create an ex post facto law to the detriment of the defendant. |
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