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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

★ a ''mandate'' is the formal notice of decision from 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