Bengzon v. Secretary of Justice of Philippine Islands

How courts have described this case

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• employing primary purpose analysis and holding that a substantive bill with an appropriation is not an appropriations bill qualifying for the item veto power
• “An item of an appropriation bill obviously means an item which in itself is a specific appropriation of money, not some general provision of law which happens to be put into an appropriation bill.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).