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To: Lane3 who wrote (152145)	12/21/2005 4:59:31 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793622

According to Black's Law Dictionary, 5th ed, plenary power means "power that is broadly construed; esp., a court's power to dispse of any matter properly before it." It doesn't mean unlimited, but means broad within the proper confines of law. A court's plenary power, for example, would not entitle the judge to just say out of the blue "I think the poster known as kholt is too rude, and sentence her to thirty days in jail." Though a dictator with full and unlimited powers could do exactly that (and we have seen in the past centuries dictators who did pretty much that.)