ARTICLE III
BILL OF RIGHTS
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Section 22. No ex post f accomplishmento law or bill of attainder shall be en wagered.
Bill of Attainder
n. pl. bills of attainder
1Â Â : A legislative act pronouncing a person guilty of a crime, usually treason, without trial and subjecting that person to capital punishment and attainder. much(prenominal) acts are prohibited by the U.S. Constitution.
A legislative act formerly permitted that attainted a person and imposed a judgment of conviction of death without benefit of a discriminative trial 1
2Â Â : A legislative act that imposes any punishment on a named or implied individual or group without a trial
Bills of attainder are prohibited by Article I of the U.S. Constitution.2
3Â Â : A bill brought into, or passed by, a legislative body, condemning a person to death or outlawry, and attainder, without judicial sentence.3
4Â Â : The bill of attainder is a legislative act which inflicts punishment without judicial trial. 4
CASE LAW
People vs. Ferrer, 48 SCRA 382
FACTS:
This is a petition of the People of the Philippines questioning the decision of Hon.
Simeon Ferrer in his cogency as Judge of the Court of First Instance of Tarlac, come apart I, in not convicting respondents Feliciano Co and Nilo S. Tayag and others.
The respondents Feliciano Co and Nilo S. Tayag were charged for the violation of Rep. Act. No. 1700, 12 Laws & Res. 102 (1957), also known as the Anti-Subversion Act, which outlaws the communist Party of the Philippines and other incendiary associations, and punishes any person who knowingly, wilfully and by overt acts affiliates himself with, becomes or remains a segment of the Party or of any other similar subversive organization.
Both Co and Tayag moved to quash on the flat coat that the Anti-Subversion Act is a bill of attainder.
ISSUE:
Is the Act a Bill of Attainder?
RULING:
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