Power of Appropriation

This topic has no further subtopics. Explore its practice questions below.

1. Under Article VI, Section 25(6), discretionary funds appropriated for particular officials must be disbursed for what p…
2. Congress passes a general appropriations bill provision governing disbursement of a named school-building appropriation…
3. A special-purpose tax was imposed to complete a specified public canal. The canal purpose has been fully fulfilled and …
4. A public official holds a discretionary appropriation. She proposes an undocumented payment for a purely personal famil…
5. An appropriations measure expressly gives public money to support a named religious sect as such. Its proponents say th…
6. An official calls a fund discretionary and claims that she may therefore spend it for any private purpose without vouch…
7. A tax was collected for a specific public purpose. Officials have formally abandoned that purpose but insist that the r…
8. A budget provision concerns the purchase of computers under a particular appropriation. Legislators claim that its pres…