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.
The Selective Service Act authorized the federal government to raise a national army for the American entry into World War I through conscription. It was envisioned in December 1916 and brought to President Woodrow Wilson's attention shortly after the break in relations with Germany in February 1917.