Our founders were hellbent on ensuring that we didn’t have a monarchy and the first way they thought of that was to give Congress the power of the purse.
Sonia Sotomayor: “Our founders were hellbent on ensuring that we didn’t have a monarchy and the first way they thought of that was to give…”
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Sotomayor highlighted the constitutional separation of powers and Congress's financial authority.
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