{"id":53,"date":"2004-11-04T11:19:30","date_gmt":"2004-11-04T17:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stardel.com\/eg\/?p=53"},"modified":"2004-11-04T11:19:30","modified_gmt":"2004-11-04T17:19:30","slug":"mandate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/2004\/11\/mandate\/","title":{"rendered":"Mandate"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vice President Cheney said that Bush had run on a clear agenda and that “the nation resounded by giving him a mandate.” Source:<\/a> WP<\/p>\n

Main Entry: man\u00b7date
\nPronunciation: ‘man-“dAt
\nFunction: noun
\nEtymology: Latin mandatum, from neuter of mandatus, past participle of mandare to entrust, enjoin, probably irregularly from manus hand + -dere to put
\n1 a : a formal communication from a reviewing court notifying the court below of its judgment and directing the lower court to act accordingly b : MANDAMUS
\n2 in the civil law of Louisiana : an act by which a person gives another person the power to transact for him or her one or several affairs
\n3 a : an authoritative command : a clear authorization or direction b : the authorization to act given by a constituency to its elected representative<\/p>\n

Source<\/a>: Merriam-Webster Dictionary of Law, \u00a9 1996 Merriam-Webster, Inc.<\/p>\n

So indeed, a majority vote does give Bush a mandate, under definition 3b:, except that the President is not an elected Representative, especially of the constituency of American Voters. Representatives are in Congress.<\/p>\n

But I think most people think of ‘mandate’ in terms of 3 a : an authoritative command : a clear authorization or direction. I don’t see where a 51-48 edge between some rather conflicting philosophies provides any clear authorization or direction. Of course, Bush does not need a mandate from the electorate since he has one from a higher power…<\/the>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Vice President Cheney said that Bush had run on a clear agenda and that “the nation resounded by giving him a mandate.” Source: WP Main Entry: man\u00b7date Pronunciation: ‘man-“dAt Function: noun Etymology: Latin mandatum, from neuter of mandatus, past participle of mandare to entrust, enjoin, probably irregularly from manus hand + -dere to put 1 … Continue reading Mandate<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s4NpF-mandate","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}