{
  "id": "mandate.granted",
  "term": "mandate",
  "sense": "granted",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "published",
  "level": 18,
  "domain": "agency",
  "style": "window",
  "definition": "Consent that a power reads as letting it set the walls it named before it was chosen.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "consent.given",
      "power.over",
      "set.fix",
      "wall.range-end",
      "name.identifier",
      "choose.decision",
      "let.permission",
      "read.information",
      "time.dimension"
    ],
    "interaction": "A power chosen after naming what it would do reads the choice as consent to those walls in particular; the mandate is how much setting that reading licenses, and it is read by the power more widely than by those who chose it.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "consent tied to named walls",
      "a claim read wider by its holder than its givers"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "legitimacy.endorsed",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "legitimacy is standing acceptance; a mandate is licence for named acts"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "mandate",
    "mandated",
    "mandates"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "claude-opus-5-5:hand-curated",
    "date": "2026-09-29",
    "confidence": 0.85,
    "sources": [
      "schema/power-agency-phase.md"
    ]
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-mandate.granted"
}