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... And what the bank tax is is an unconstitutional Bill of Attainder.The constitution bars bills of attainder in Section 9 of Article I: "No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed."This was a truly revolutionary departure from English law, which had featured Bills of Attainder since the fourteenth century. But when the framers met in Philadelphia to write the constitution, they unanimously decided to ban them. Despite the contentiousness of much of the constitutional debate, there was not one objection raised to the ban. Thanks to this legal innovation, most of us are not very familiar with attainder. Basically, it is a criminal conviction by the legislature rather than the judiciary, circumventing due process protections of the accused. It is closely linked with "ex post facto" law making, since often the person was punished despite not having violated any law at all.There is not a lot of US legal precedent when it comes to bills of attainder. But what there is suggests that a bill of attainder might be said to have five elements: ...