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This document discusses the case of Calder v. Bull, which examined whether a resolution passed by the Connecticut legislature granting a new hearing in a probate case was an unconstitutional ex post facto law. The court found that it was not an ex post facto law for three reasons: 1) it did not make an innocent act criminal or increase punishment for a crime; 2) it affected a vested right to property, not a criminal act; 3) the resolution alone did not affect any rights, only when combined with the new hear

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