Hell, you can get a lot closer to what it means by looking at it literally.
“No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed.” is pretty damn clear, yet we have things like retroactive tax law and the targeted laws for AIG & Goldman Sachs...
I am fed up with what people in authority are doing. It’s not unconstitutional, a word that has been overused, which technically speaking could apply to anything not in the Constitution; but these are Contra-Constitutional, contrary to the very things the Constitution says!
What bothers me a bit, is how people are horrified as to SWAT squads are assaulting grand mothers, and border guards on a power trip.
The American constitution was built in on the separation of powers.
Now you have the Police acting like Judge Dread.
Scratch that. Judge Dread had honour.