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unusual facts about Full Powers


John M. Bacon

In 1898, General Bacon was stationed in Saint Paul, Minnesota, as the commanding officer of the Department of the Dakotas; he had carte blanche to deal with Indian troubles as he saw fit.



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Caribbean Court of Justice

The Jamaica Labour Party resisted the full powers of the CCJ on the basis that it was a hanging court.

Carlist Party

The leader, Francesc Xavier, after suffering a serious automobile accident, conceded full powers to his son, Carlos Hugo, Duke of Parma, represented in Spain for José María de Zavala, to run the party and resigned on 20 April 1975.

Hungarian Constitution of 1949

Andrew Arato, an expert on constitutions in new democracies, places the 1989 text under his "post-sovereign" constitution making paradigm, so called because no single body with full powers is tasked with drafting a new constitution.