bill of attainder in a sentence

Examples

1. Queen Catherine was condemned by a bill of attainder and executed on 13 February 1542.
2. A bill of attainder was then passed.
3. The prohibitions on ex post facto laws and on bills of attainder are obviously closely related.
4. A bill of attainder is a law by which a person is immediately convicted without trial.
5. He had lost his titles and property when Parliament voted a bill of attainder for treason.
6. First, the Court rejected the argument that the Act was an unconstitutional bill of attainder.
7. In my opinion, s27A has sufficient generality to avoid the characteristics of a bill of attainder.
8. The prohibition against bills of attainder, he said, is a limit on Congress'powers.
9. In March 2010, a federal district court declared the funding ban an unconstitutional bill of attainder.
10. In 2003, a federal appeals court ruled that the act was an unconstitutional bill of attainder.