CARTE BLANCHE - Unlimited authority--granted by one person to another--to impose conditions which will be binding upon the person granting such authority.
CARTE BLANCHE. The signature of an individual or more, on a while. paper, with a sufficient space left above it to write a note or other writing.
destroyer Maddox. Requesting power from Congress to strike back, Johnson received it in the form of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which granted the president virtual carte blanche to prosecute the war in Vietnam.
 See also: Law, Person, Witness, Will, Authority
  
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