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Founders Would Be Horrified by Congress's Surrender of its Power of the Purse to POTUS
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Founders Would Be Horrified by Congress's Surrender of its Power of the Purse to POTUS
The UnPopulist illustrationThe power of the purse, the idea that matters of taxation and spending belong in the hands of a representative legislature, is the fundamental bedrock of the Anglo-American constitutional tradition. It was the basis of Parliament’s fight against the “personal rule” of Charles I. It was the rallying cry of the American Revolution—“no taxation without representation.” And it is firmly codified in the supreme law of the l…
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