Mandate most often refers to:
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League of Nations mandate
A League of Nations mandate was a legal status for certain territories transferred from the control of one country to another following World War I, or the legal instruments that contained the internationally agreed-upon terms for administ ...
s, quasi-colonial territories established under Article 22 of the Covenant of the League of Nations, 28 June 1919
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Mandate (politics)
In representative democracies, a mandate (or seat) is the authority granted by a constituency to act as its representative.
Elections, especially ones with a large margin of victory, are often said to give the newly elected government or electe ...
, the power granted by an electorate
Mandate may also refer to:
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Mandate (after shave), British after shave brand
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Mandate (criminal law), an official or authoritative command; an order or injunction
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Mandate (international law), an obligation handed down by an inter-governmental body
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''Mandate'' (magazine), a monthly gay pornographic magazine
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Mandate (trade union), a trade union in Ireland
* , various ships of Britain's navy
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Mandate (typeface), a brash-brush typeface designed by R. Hunter Middleton
* The formal notice of decision from an
appeal
In law, an appeal is the process in which cases are reviewed by a higher authority, where parties request a formal change to an official decision. Appeals function both as a process for error correction as well as a process of clarifying and ...
s court
* A requirement for a
Health maintenance organization to provide a particular product
See also
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Contract of mandate, a contract of
bailment of goods without reward, to be carried from place to place, or to have some act performed about them
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Individual mandate
An individual mandate is a requirement by law for certain persons to purchase or otherwise obtain a good or service.
United States Militia act
The Militia Acts of 1792, based on the Constitution's militia clause (in addition to its affirmative ...
, an often controversial government requirement for the purchase of goods by individuals
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Mandate of Heaven
The Mandate of Heaven () is a Chinese political philosophy that was used in ancient and imperial China to legitimize the rule of the King or Emperor of China. According to this doctrine, heaven (天, ''Tian'') – which embodies the natural ...
, a traditional Chinese concept of legitimacy used to support the rule of the kings of the Shang Dynasty and later the Emperors of China
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Divine mandate
In European Christianity, the divine right of kings, divine right, or God's mandation is a political and religious doctrine of political legitimacy of a monarchy. It stems from a specific metaphysical framework in which a monarch is, before b ...
, a political and religious doctrine
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