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Purse and Sword

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Courts hold neither the purse nor the sword: no budget to spend and no force to command, so rulings depend on others to execute.

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A decision against a government agency waits on that government to comply.

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The judiciary's power is judgment — the weakest branch by the framers' own reckoning.