Popes Honorius III and Innocent III likewise made quite frequent use of it.
One should note that the authorities who thus called for the election
of representatives usually insisted that they be invested with full
powers (plenipotentiarii) - that is to say, that the electors should
consider themselves bound by the decisions of the elected, whatever
those decisions may be. The involvement of the will and consent of the governed in the selection of delegates gave to the resolutions of
the representative assemblies a binding force that the decisions of
men selected by lot would not have possessed.