During my last year of law school, one short piece, among others, I wrote was this: Recent Development: Separation of Powers, S.373, 6 IND. L. REV. 523 (1973). It was a brief analysis of then-pending legislation regarding presidential control of the public purse. Because I'd done a huge amount of meticulous research while preparing that piece and because of my keen interest in the limits of presidential power and my desire to share what I'd learned, soon thereafter I wrote two much more lengthy and detailed pieces. They were these:

The Presidency and the Purse: Impoundment 1803-1973, 45 UNIV. COLO. L. REV. 25-50 (1973), and . . .

History and Practice of Executive Impoundment of Appropriated Funds, 53 NEB. L. REV. 1-30 (1974).

The first article was commented on favorably by Senator Birch Bayh, and he caused it to be reprinted in the Congressional Record on December 14, 1973. The latter was heavily relied upon by the Senate Budget Committee in its 1995 report on the line-item veto act and received the only footnote in the majority section. It was also one of but three journal articles cited by the Government as authority in its brief to the United States Supreme Court in the case of Raines v. Byrd.