PSC 4361 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Pension, Contract Clause, Warren Bridge
10 Jan 2018
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What is the contract clause and what does it do: article i, section 10 no state shall make any law impairing the obligation of contracts. Is the contract clause meant to pertain to contracts between people only (as in, that is the only case in which the state cannot interfere?) Or is the contract clause meant to pertain to contracts that the state makes as well: court: applies to contracts that states make as well, ex post facto law (article i, sec. 10) this limitation in the constitution prevents the legislature from passing a law that allows someone"s land to be seized for a crime which was not declared to render him liable to that punishment . Why: this was not explicit or implied in the lang. of the contract that the charles river. In blaisdell, the court was making an exception to the contract clause.
