Both Uses of
mandate
in
Anthem
- ...the Council of Vocations came to give us our life mandates which tell those who reach their fifteenth year what their work is to be for the rest of their days.
Part 1 *mandates = instructions that must be followed
- We would accept our Life Mandate, and we would work for our brothers, gladly and willingly, and we would erase our sin against them, which they did not know, but we knew.†
Part 1
Definition:
an official order or authority to act -- either as a command that must be followed or as power given to carry out policies