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late-. The power to pass such laws would still remain, at least so far as respects crimes committed without the state.^[1] During the revolutionary war, bills of attainder, and ex post facto acts of confiscation, were passed to a wide extent; and the evils resulting therefrom were supposed, in times of more cool reflection, to have far outweighed any imagined good.

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1. Cooper v. Telfair, 4 Dall. R. 14; S. C. 1 Peters's Cond. R. 211.