Note 488 — Chapter XII · THE LAW OF CITIZENSHIP
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Calder v. Bull, 3 Dallas, 386 (1798); Kring v. Missouri, 107 U. S., 221 (1882); Thompson v. Utah, 170 U. S., 343 (1898). All the State constitutions forbid ex post facto laws.
The right secured to the citizen by the constitutional inhibition of ex post facto legislation forms part of his, or her, privileges and immunities; for though the inhibition cannot be said to be derived from the common law,—and may be said to be essentially statutory, it has become recognized as a fundamental right and of rank with any other fundamental right.