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undelegated

  • a word derived from delegate.
    delegate
    noun
    a person designated to act for or represent another or others; deputy; representative, as in a political convention.

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This we have never commissioned you to do; and it is one instance among many, indeed, of your assumption of undelegated power.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

This undelegated personal right is in each of us, or ought to be.

From The Story of the Outlaw A Study of the Western Desperado by Emerson Hough

All the devices of rotation in office, short terms, undelegated authority are simply attempts to defeat the half-perceived fact that power will not long stay diffused.

From A Preface to Politics by Walter Lippmann

It was the undelegated right of one individual against that of another.

From The Story of the Outlaw A Study of the Western Desperado by Emerson Hough

All beyond this would seem to be an assumption of undelegated power.

From A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 3, part 1: Andrew Jackson (Second Term) by James D. (James Daniel) Richardson