State X enacts a law that retroactively changes the terms of existing leases between landowners and tenants to increase rent. Tenants and landowners challenge the law, arguing it violates the Constitution. Which Constitutional provision is most likely implicated in this dispute?
The Contracts Clause of the Constitution prohibits states from passing laws that impair the obligations of contracts. Since State X's law retroactively changes the terms of existing leases, it directly affects contractual agreements between landowners and tenants.
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