There are multiple types of decisions that the attorney-in-fact can be given the power to make, including the power to: 1  Make financial decisions. 2  Make gifts of money. 3  Make health care decisions, including the ability to consent to giving, withholding, or stopping medical treatments, services, or diagnostic procedures.
1 Changes in the second half of the nineteenth century dramatically increased the governmentâs regulatory power. 2  The federal civil service, created by the 1883 Pendleton Civil Service Act, ensured that bureaucrats would be hired on the basis of merit rather than political connections.
1 The U.S. Marshals Service was established as a agency in 1969, and it was elevated to full bureau status under the Justice Department in 1974. 2  Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) - On July 26, 1908, a small investigative force was created within the Justice Department under Attorney General Charles Bonaparte.