> On Aug 21, 2015, at 7:06 PM, Geoff Oltmans <oltma...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Aug 21, 2015, at 5:40 PM, Fred Cisin wrote: >> >> If it were changes in the law, then it would NOT be retroactive unless >> explicitly declaring itself to be. > > Different places are different, but the US constitution explicity prohibits > ex post facto laws.
So it does, and that restriction is obeyed just as little as most other Constitutional prohibitions. paul