authority granted by a constituency to act as its representative
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In representative democracies, a mandate is a perceived legitimacy to rule through popular support. Mandates can be conveyed through elections, in which voters choose political parties and candidates based on their own policy preferences. The election results are then interpreted to determine which policies are popularly supported. The modern concept of a political mandate first developed around the 16th century and became a prominent aspect of politics after the French Revolution.
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Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).