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.
Creating the Commission on Civil Rights. President Eisenhower signs the Civil Rights Act of 1957 into law on September 9, 1957. On September 9, 1957, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed into law the Civil Rights Act of 1957, the first federal civil rights legislation to be enacted since Reconstruction.Part I of the Act created a Commission on Civil Rights within the executive branch. the creation of a Division of Civil Rights in the Justice Department, to be headed by a newly appointed Assistant Attorney General; and. 2  the creation of a Joint Standing Committee on Civil Rights in Congress.