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(Note that this might be before or after 1900).

Suppose that US were to have a constitutional amendment something like this:

*No court can convict anyone in violation of statute law as published at the time of the conduct concerned, nor deprive a private person of rights or property as allowed by statute then in force

*The Supreme Court of United States shall issue an advisory opinion on the constitutionality of any proposed law on request of one fourth of the membership of either House of Congress, or of President, or of the legislatures of any three States

*Both advisory opinions and solutions of cases are by stare decisis binding on all future Supreme Courts

*The majority of Supreme Court may propose constitutional amendments and submit them to States for ratification.

What would the effects be? And when could something similar pass?
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