Sascha: The attempt to ban parliament' s right to pass directed-spending bills-bills that contain provisions specifically funding the favorite projects of some powerful politicians-is antidemocratic  Our nation' s constitution requires that money be drawn from our treasury only when so stipulated by laws passed by parliament, the branch of government most directly representative of the citizens
This requirement is based on the belief that exercising the power to spend public resources involves the ultimate exercise of state authority and that ttherefore
the right to exercise such a power should belong exclusively to the branch of government most directly representative of the citizens