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Originally Posted by pilotbob
Doesn't that mean that something you did yesterday can't be made illegal retroactively? So, I can't get arrested for something I did on Wednesday that is made illegal on Thursday?
I think this is a different circumstance.
BOb
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Not really. If something was legally defined, (and property definitions are as much law as criminal law), and the legal definition was backdated, it should be an ex post facto legal occurance. I suspect nobody considered it worth litigating over....(Congress has skirted ex post facto with tax laws for years, claiming that since the legislations were submitted before the effective dates, it didn't violate ex post facto constitutionality....)