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<p><b>Amnesty</b>  is defined as "A <a href="page.php?w=pardon">pardon</a> extended by a government to a group or class of people, usually for a political offense; the act of a sovereign power officially forgiving certain classes of people who are subject to trial but have not yet been convicted." Though the term "general pardon" has a similar definition, an amnesty constitutes more than a pardon, in so much as it obliterates all legal remembrance of the offense. An <a href="page.php?w=amnesty_law">amnesty law</a> is any law that <a href="page.php?w=Ex_post_facto_law">retroactively</a></p><p>
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