reserved power

noun

a political power that a constitution reserves exclusively to the jurisdiction of a particular political authority.

First recorded in 1825–35

Shall there be no reserved power in the empire to supply a deficiency which may weaken, divide, and dissipate the whole?

There was about him at that time an air of reserved power which interested though it did not attract those who knew him.

Through all there is a striking sense of reserved power, and of absolute mastery of the art.

They like to have an adjunct to the best-working machinery, a sort of reserved power.

In the mean time, the people consider themselves the safest depositary of their reserved power.

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