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Beheh · **on:** Aug 17, 2018

The constitutional principle that refers to a statute defining a crime that is so unclear that a reasonable person of at least average intelligence could not determine what the law purports to command or prohibit is the ________ principle.

A) proximate
B) ex post facto
C) legality
D) void-for-vagueness

Question 2

Bob turns 21 and goes out and buys his first six-pack of beer. The next week, the drinking age is raised to 22 and the sheriff arrests Bob for buying that six-pack. Bob is the victim of:

A) the void-for-vagueness principle.
B) proximate cause.
C) an ex post facto law.
D) the principle of legality.