Such doctrines do not have a democratic or constitutional mandate from the states that agreed to be bound by the convention.

The duties of a union steward vary according to each labor union's constitutional mandate for the position.

Shores sees such consistency not only as sound policy, but as a constitutional mandate.

He retired by constitutional mandate in 1970 at the age of seventy-five.

It hardly advances the democratic cause to deploy subterfuge and to pass off political commitments as constitutional mandates.