Mandate

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Mandate can refer to:

• Mandate (international law), an obligation handed down by an inter-governmental body
• Mandate (politics), the power granted by an electorate
• League of Nations mandates, quasi-colonial territories established under Article 22 of the Covenant of the League of Nations, 28 June 1919
• Mandate (theology), to some Christians, an order from God
• Mandate (law), the decision of an appeals court
• Mandate (trade union), the trade union in Ireland
• Mandate magazine, a gay pornographic magazine published since the 1970s
• Mandate of Heaven, 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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