another feature of these systems was "corruption of blood", in which a crime committed usually by a title noble was punished not only by punishing the offender but depriving an heir of his ability to inherit property and titles this was mostly a political measure
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oh interesting. wikipedia claims on attainder. so apparently attainder is simply tied to corruption, and the /bill/ or /writ/ bit refers to the source of the attainderpic.twitter.com/Cm2flZn3pr
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more on corruption of blood before moving onpic.twitter.com/wFBE0w9OYX
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this paragraph is hilarious to me. as i suspected from a hostile reading the text of the Constitution *only* prohibits attainder for treason specifically so hypothetically constitutionally you could assign attainder as a penalty for jaywalkingpic.twitter.com/XiZ5EkINJI
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AND THEN the first congress realized immediately that they had fucked up and passed a new but non-Constitutional law prohibiting attainder's use in other situations BUT THIS IS ONLY LEGISLATIVE
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so basically we are legislative majorities, a willing president, and 230 years of having just forgotten about this little fucksie-wucksie from bringing back Attainder for whatever people want
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and in fact it is even worse than that because the 1790 law prohibits attainder only at the Federal level so yes the Constitution is incorporated in some sense (who made that shit up) but nothing in the Constitution bans attainder except for treason
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what do you think the odds are that we could find one (1) state to test this theory. remember that we have fifty to choose fromb
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probably from BILLS of attainder but not if the attainder is the result of a trial (eg traffic court)
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Replying to @eigenrobot
I'm trying to imagine a grumpy traffic judge disinheriting all of a man's heirs for his failure to pay a ticket.
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