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If you've corrected this and it still comes out "bill of attainer" then something's seriously screwed up.
A bill of attainder, as mentioned in the Constitution, Art. 1, secs 9 & 10, is a legislative act that effectively imposes a criminal penalty on someone without (or regardless of) a trial or the general law applicable to hs situation. More specifically, at the time the Constitution was adopted, a bill of attainder imposed a death sentence, and lesser punishments would be a bill of pains and penalties. In any case they were never tolerated as part of the American legal system.
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