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What is a law that punishes you for somthing illegal today but was legal when you did it?
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∙ 15y ago
A Government can pass a law that makes a legal something into something that is illegal. One instance is the anti-smoking law passed by the British Government - it is now illegal to smoke in a public house, on a bus, and in many other places.
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∙ 9y ago
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∙ 15y agoAn "ex post facto" law. The phrase means "after the fact". Such laws are forbidded by the US Constitution in Article 2.
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∙ 10y agoNon-existent, contradictory, paradoxical. No laws should punish you for doing something legal.
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