unconditional authority

In a New Yorker article at the time, George Packer wrote that Biden and Lugar negotiated with White House lawyers on legislative language—but in the end, they were hoodwinked: Bush rammed through a bill for unconditional authority to go to war.

Boards do not have unrestricted power and unconditional authority to act unilaterally when enforcing so-called rules predicated on the board's interpretation of what is appropriate.

Carriage, speech, everything, was short, decided, and commanding, as is usual with any one accustomed to unconditional authority and command.

And Mr. Stirn, having now got what he considered a complete and unconditional authority over all the legs and wrists of Hazeldean parish, quoad the stocks, took his departure.

We recognize the office and obligations of the State as temporal ruler, but we do not acknowledge in it an absolute and unconditional authority.