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 RECORDS OF THE FEDERAL CONVENTION 379 FFednesda3 McHENRY tugust  a perpetual bar to such --To say that the legis. shall not pass an ex post facto law is the same as to declare they shall not do a thing contrary to common sense- that they shall not cause that to be a crime which is no crime  Carried in the affirmative.

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