Retroactive Legislation

Retroactive Legislation

Editorial Reviews
Book Description
This book finds that political and procedural mechanisms needed to ensure settled, investment-backed expectations are upset only after consideration and when a political consensus exists.

Book Info
Traces the history of the presumption of prospectivity & surveys the Constitution's ex post facto, bill of attainder, contracts, & taking clauses in documenting the courts' failure to guard against retroactive legislation. Text argues that political & procedural mechanisms are needed. DLC: Retroactive laws - U.S. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Retroactive Legislation,Daniel E. Troy,AEI Press,0844740233,General,Law,Political Process - Leadership,Retroactive laws,United States,Non-Classifiable

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