Refusing to call a special session, Morton went on to govern Indiana illegally without legislative appropriation, borrowing funds from the War Department and taking out personal loans from New York bankers and Republican-controlled county governments to cover state expenses.
He mocks a creative reliance on appropriation, borrowing and stealing by dressing up his models in so many allusions to so many places and ideas that the women end up looking like brilliant dreams -- the kind in which your grandmother from Grand Rapids, Mich., is dating your 24-year-old car-mechanic neighbor from Tunis, and they are carrying on somewhere in Peru.
Crossing this line may turn acts of borrowing into cultural appropriation.
In these debates, the label of cultural appropriation is broadly applied to borrowing that is in some way inappropriate, unauthorised or undesirable.
Cultural appropriation is the practice of borrowing traditional artifacts, customs, rituals, or dress from another culture, often done without regard for the significance of such articles in their society of origin.
Levying special taxes, rather than borrowing, to finance "special appropriations" would compel the body politic to bear the fiscal burden — and encourage citizens to consider war-making a political choice they were involved in, not a fait accompli they must accept.
The solution under this option would be to interpret the appropriations laws as implicitly authorizing sufficient borrowing to allow the president to both carry out those laws and to repay U.S. debts on time, notwithstanding the debt limit statute.
I brought up the notion of indigenous wisdom, and the tricky topic of cultural appropriation when events borrow from tribal traditions.
She calls her series "Appropriations and Affinities," and borrows extensively from art history -- especially the Renaissance for her imagery.
Discussions of appropriation may also take insufficient account of the importance and benefits of borrowing.
