Mandate
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Mandate can refer to:
- Mandate (international law)Mandate (international law)In international law, a mandate is a binding obligation issued from an inter-governmental organization like the United Nations to a country which is bound to follow the instructions of the organization....
, an obligation handed down by an inter-governmental body - Mandate (criminal law)Mandate (criminal law)A criminal court may impose a "mandate" on a person accused of a crime consisting of an obligation to engage in certain conditions or activities in exchange for suspension or reduction in penalty; such as, conditions of probation, conditional discharges, or other conditional sentences...
, an official or authoritative command; an order or injunction - Mandate (politics)Mandate (politics)In politics, a mandate is the authority granted by a constituency to act as its representative.The concept of a government having a legitimate mandate to govern via the fair winning of a democratic election is a central idea of democracy...
, the power granted by an electorate - Individual mandateIndividual mandateAn individual mandate is a requirement by a government that certain individual citizens purchase or otherwise obtain a good or service.In the United States, the United States Congress has enacted two individual mandates, the first was never federally enforced, while the second is not scheduled to...
, an often controversial government requirement for the purchase of goods by individuals - League of Nations mandateLeague of Nations mandateA 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 administering the territory on behalf of the League...
s, quasi-colonial territories established under Article 22 of the Covenant of the League of Nations, 28 June 1919, which included:- French Mandate of LebanonFrench Mandate of LebanonThe state of Greater Lebanon, the predecessor of modern Lebanon, was created in 1920 as part of the French scheme of dividing the French Mandate of Syria into six states....
- British Mandate of Mesopotamia
- British Mandate of Palestine
- French Mandate of SyriaFrench Mandate of SyriaOfficially the French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon was a League of Nations mandate founded after the First World War and the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire...
- French Mandate of Lebanon
- Mandate (theology)Mandate (theology)In Christian theology, a mandate is an order given from God that must be obeyed without question. For example, the mandate given to Abraham to offer his son Isaac as a sacrifice to God....
, to some Christians, an order from God - a mandate is the formal notice of decision from an appealAppealAn appeal is a petition for review of a case that has been decided by a court of law. The petition is made to a higher court for the purpose of overturning the lower court's decision....
s court - a requirement for a Health maintenance organization to provide a particular product.
- Contract of mandateContract of mandateContract of mandate is a contract of bailment of goods without reward, to be carried from place to place, or to have some act performed about them....
- Mandate (trade union)Mandate (trade union)The Mandate trade union was formed in 1994 with the amalgamation of IDATU and INUVGATA trade unions.It describes itself as:It is affiliated with the Irish Congress of Trade Unions.-History:...
, a trade union in Ireland - Mandate magazineMandate magazineMandate was a monthly gay pornographic magazine. It was published in the United States and distributed internationally since April, 1975. Together with the other magazines of the Mavety Group, such as Black Inches, it folded in 2009.-History:...
, a gay pornographic magazine published since the 1970s - Mandate of HeavenMandate of HeavenThe Mandate of Heaven is a traditional Chinese philosophical concept concerning the legitimacy of rulers. It is similar to the European concept of the divine right of kings, in that both sought to legitimaze rule from divine approval; however, unlike the divine right of kings, the Mandate of...
, a traditional Chinese concept of legitimacy used to support the rule of the kings of the Shang Dynasty and later the Emperors of China