Attainder of Treason And Confiscation of the Property of Rebels a Letter to Th
Attainder of Treason And Confiscation of the Property of Rebels a Letter to Th
W D William Dexter Wilson
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) By corruption of blood, in consequence of which they could inherit nothing from him, or even through him from their ancestors. (2. ) By bills of attainder passed after the death of the offender^ and when his property had passed into the hands of his heirs, who might be perfectly innocent of his crime. I have already spoken of the English law as allowing attain- der after the offender himself was dead. Now, nothing seems more natural, than to suppose the framers of our Constitution had these p...ost mortem, visitations upon the posterity of the offender in mind, when they added the words in our Constitu- tion : " or forfeiture except during the life of the person attainted^'' Fortunately, such a thing as attainder after the death of the offender is entirely unknown in practice in our country. And it does not appear to have occurred, very generally, at least, to the minds of our people, that that English practice could have had anything to do with the insertion of this limitation to for- feiture in our Constitution.
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