Baliles v. Mazur

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• reviewing cases holding that government's \moral obligation\ to make appropriations is not enforceable, even when expectation of appropriations was \an essential ingredient in the negotiations\
• analyzing and sustaining Virginia statute under which Virginia Public Building Authority was charged with construction, maintenance, and operation of public buildings funded by Authority-issued notes and bonds and secured by State rental payments
• analyzing and sustaining Virginia statute under which Virginia Public Building Authority was charged with construction, maintenance, and operation of public buildings funded by Authority-issued notes and bonds and secured by State rental payments
• stating that the “true meaning” of separation of powers is that the whole power of one department should not be exercised by the same hands possessing the whole power of another department (citing Winchester & Strasburg R.R. Co., 106 Va. at 270, 55 S.E. at 694)
• rent for government's use of office and other buildings
• \[T]here is not a single constitution of any state in the [U]nion which does not practically embrace some acknowledgement of the [separation of powers] maxim and at the same time some admixture of powers constituting an exception to it.\ (internal quotation marks omitted)

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