how did the mandate of heaven affect government in china
The divine right of kings. Or you could mean the Mandate of heaven.
A representative form of government derives its mandate to govern from the consent of the people to be governed. The governed peopel can withdraw, recall, or change their mandate by means of regularly scheduled elections but if/when the government refuses to obey the mandate of the elctorate it is possible that revolution or civil war could occur when the people attempt to remove the no-longer-legitimate government by force.
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My cheque has been returned to me and stated" not signed according to mandate" What does this mean?
In law, a mandate is an order or authoritative command handed down from a leader or judge. A mandate from God is the same.
Ancient China's Government was a Monarchy.
When a higher level of the U.S. government (i.e. the federal government) tells lower branches of the government (i.e. state governments) to do something, that's a mandate. If the federal government give the states money to help them do whatever they want them to do, that's a funded mandate. If they don't, if they just expect the states to do it on their own, that's an unfunded mandate. So when the Americans with Disabilities Act was passed, the federal government told the state governments they had to make all their office buildings handicap-accessible. They did give the states some money for the construction (although some say not enough), so that was a funded mandate.
A constitutional mandate can mean a few different things. A constitutional mandate is usually something that must be upheld due to it's stating so in the constitution.
A federal mandate
When a federal law requires a lower government to meet a particular obligation, this is referred to as a federal mandate. The Americans with Disabilities Act is an example of a federal mandate.
It gave legitimacy to the form of government being established