American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An authoritative command or instruction.
- n. A command or an authorization given by a political electorate to its representative.
- n. A commission from the League of Nations authorizing a member nation to administer a territory.
- n. A region under such administration.
- n. Law An order issued by a superior court or an official to a lower court.
- n. Law A contract by which one party agrees to perform services for another without payment.
- v. To assign (a colony or territory) to a specified nation under a mandate.
- v. To make mandatory, as by law; decree or require: mandated desegregation of public schools.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A command; an order, precept, or injunction; a commission.
- n. An official command addressed by a superior to an inferior, to control his conduct in a specific manner. Specifically
- n. In early Rom. law (before the doctrines of agency were developed), a trust or commission by which one person, called the mandator, requested another, the mandatarius, to act in his own name and as if for himself in a particular transaction (special mandate), or in all the affairs of the former (general mandate). The mandatarius was the only one recognized as having legal rights and responsibilities as toward third persons in the transactions involved. As between him and the mandator, however, the latter was entitled to all benefit, and bound to indemnity against losses, etc.; but the service was gratuitous.
- n. In civil law
- n. A contract of bailment in which a thing is transferred by the mandator to the possession of the mandatory, upon an undertaking of the latter to perform gratuitously some service in reference to it: distinguished from a mere deposit for safe keeping.
- n. A contract of agency by which the mandator confides a matter of business, or his business generally, to an agent called the mandatary. If the authority or appointment be in writing, the mandate is also called
procuration. Mandatary qualification exists where a person induces another to repose credit in a third person; it answers somewhat to our modern letter of credit.
- To command.
- To commit (a sermon, speech, etc.) to memory by repeating (it) aloud to one's self before delivery.
- n. An official or authoritative command; an order or injunction; a commission; a judicial precept.
- v. to authorize
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. An official or authoritative command, order, or authorization from a superior official to a subordinate; an order or injunction; a commission; a judicial precept.
- n. (Politics) An authorization to carry out a specific public policy, given by the electorate to their representatives; -- it is considered to be implied by the election of a candidate by a significant margin after that candidate has campaigned with that policy as a prominent element of the campaign platform.
- n. Authorization by a multinational body to a nation to administer the government and affairs of a territory, usually a former colony.
- n. (Canon Law) A rescript of the pope, commanding an ordinary collator to put the person therein named in possession of the first vacant benefice in his collation.
- n. (Scots Law) A contract by which one employs another to manage any business for him. By the Roman law, it must have been gratuitous.
- n. a document giving an official instruction or command
- v. make mandatory
- v. assign authority to
- v. assign under a mandate
- n. the commission that is given to a government and its policies through an electoral victory
- n. a territory surrendered by Turkey or Germany after World War I and put under the tutelage of some other European power until they are able to stand by themselves
- Noun is from Latin mandatum ("a charge, order, command, commission, injunction"), neut of. mandatus, past participle of mandare ("to commit to one's charge, order, command, commission, literally to put into one's hands"), from manus ("hand") + dare ("to put"). Compare command, commend, demand, remand. (Wiktionary)
- Latin mandātum, from neuter past participle of mandāre, to order; see man-2 in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
“If you don't have the product then don't bother me with all the LOI, and I hate to hear the term mandate, and all the BS that go with it.”
“There seems to be a lot of spin on this issue, as to whether the mandate is a “tax” or not, but word games aside, clearly the individual mandate is a major cost of the program to Americans.”
“That Wal Mart has endorsed the employer mandate is a bit surprising but not shocking.”
“Therefore, if the mandate is a direct tax, then to be constitutional, uninsured citizens in a state with a lower percentage of insured would need to pay a higher mandate than citizens of a state with a higher percentage of insured.”
“But (once again), the insurance mandate is permissible even if refusing to buy insurance is not economic activity because the mandate is an essential part of a larger regulatory scheme that would otherwise be undercut.”
“If the mandate is a tax/revenue measure, then contrary to assertions I have read at tnr. com, it could be easily removed by a future Rep Congress (and President) through the reconciliation process, ie it would not require 60 votes in the Senate to get rid of it.”
“Jeff Norman says: jrose: But (once again), the insurance mandate is permissible even if refusing to buy insurance is not economic activity because the mandate is an essential part of a larger regulatory scheme that would otherwise be undercut.”
“Critics of Obamacare are correct that the mandate is a tax on being alive.”
“It may therefore be of some interest that President Obama, himself a former constitutional law professor, forcefully denied that the mandate is a tax in this September 2009 ABC News interview:”
“It may therefore be of some interest that President Obama, himself a former constitutional law professor, forcefully denied that the mandate is a tax in this September 2009 ABC News interview ...”
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