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full powers

  
     
  The capacity to sign a treaty. Usually it consists of a specific written authorization granted by a state to one of its diplomatic agents. Such full powers must be available for inspection by the other party or parties to the treaty, and may be exchanged for theirs. However, a head of state, head of government, and foreign minister (sense 1) enjoy full powers by virtue of their offices. Someone with full powers is known as a plenipotentiary. The inclusion of that term in the full title of an ambassador indicates that such an official does not need full powers to agree the text of a treaty between the sending and the receiving state. See also general full powers.  
 

 

 

  
 
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