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4572. LEGISLATION, Ex post facto.—

I recollect no case where a question simply
between citizens of the same State, has been
transferred to the foreign department, except
that of inhibiting tenders but of metallic
money, and ex post facto legislation.—
To Edward Livingston. Washington ed. vii, 342. Ford ed., x, 300.
(M. 1824) [294]

 
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By Johnson in his Life of General Nathaniel
Greene.
—Editor.