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a permission slip the powerful write themselves and call the people's will
means An authoritative command or official order to do something, often one a leader claims to have received from voters or a higher power.
from From Latin mandatum, 'a command, commission,' the past participle of mandare, 'to entrust, to order.' The likely root is a vivid one: manus, 'hand,' joined with dare, 'to give' — so a mandate is literally something 'given into the hand,' a charge handed over for safekeeping or execution. It traveled into English through Old French mandat, and that same Latin mandatum gives us 'Maundy Thursday,' from Christ's mandatum to love one another.
- origin
- From Latin mandare, to give into one's hand
- thin margins
- Leaders claim them after winning by single digits
- map roots
- Mandatory territories let empires rule while calling it stewardship
- medical sense
- Same word forces vaccines and elects presidents
- expiration
- Voters revoke them faster than any contract
british mandate for palestine — league of nations mandate 1920-1948 over territory that became israel and jordan
french mandate for syria — league of nations mandate 1920-1946 governing syria and lebanon after ottoman collapse