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.