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Abstract
Congress's "power of the purse"-its authority to deny access to public funds-is one of its most essential constitutional authorities. A central mechanism through which English parliaments clawed liberty from reluctant monarchs, it remains a crucial check on executive overreaching. It may provide power to stop a president in his tracks. And yet, two centuries after the founding, the scope of this congressional power and its relationship with constitutional executive authorities remains both contested and inadequately theorized.
Recommended Citation
Zachary S. Price,
Funding Restrictions and Separation of Powers,
71 Vanderbilt Law Review
357
(2018)
Available at: https://scholarship.law.vanderbilt.edu/vlr/vol71/iss2/1