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Re: $400,000,000 Slave Compensation- For Masters

"Whether or not an amendment would be applicable ex post facto I don't really know"

Then HOW do you know that what you are doing today legally (lets say you are a doctor that preforms abortions) That Abortions will not be made illegal in the future and you (a Doctor) not be charged with a crime (preforming those abortions) before they became a criminal act by being made illegal?

Owning slaves was NOT illegal until Dec 1865 with the ratification of that 13th Amendment, even in the UNITED STATES no matter how distasteful and wrong it may have been. And under the laws of that time prior to Dec. 1865 it was still a crime to illegally seize the property (it didn't matter if it was a house, horse or a slave) of another person without due "legal" recourse. And that word "Legal" was streached to it limits by the Confiscation Act and several other pieces of wartime legislation from the United States Congress and carried out by the Union Army without discression.

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