By Zachary Stieber For Dr. Anish Koka, vaccine mandates made sense. He has a daughter who received an organ transplant, so she cannot receive certain shots. Mandates help ensure high vaccination rates, which can protect people like her. He also trusted officials who implemented mandates and scientists who said the immunizations are safe and effective. […]
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In politics, a mandate is the authority granted by a constituency to act as its representative. The concept of a government having a legitimate mandate to govern via the fair winning of a democratic election is a central idea of representative democracy. A mandate is not a law.

