Mandate vs Maxim - What's the difference?
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An official or authoritative command; an order or injunction; a commission; a judicial precept.
to authorize
to make mandatory
A self-evident axiom or premise; a pithy expression of a general principle or rule.
A precept; a succinct statement or observation of a rule of conduct or moral teaching.
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As nouns the difference between mandate and maxim
is that mandate is an official or authoritative command; an order or injunction; a commission; a judicial precept while maxim is a self-evident axiom or premise; a pithy expression of a general principle or rule.As a verb mandate
is to authorize.As a proper noun Maxim is
the Maxim gun, a British machine gun of various calibres used by the British army from 1889 until World War I.mandate
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(wikipedia mandate)Noun
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(en noun)Wealth of Nations, page 768:
- In every age and country of the world men must have attended to the characters, designs, and actions of one another, and many reputable rules and maxims for the conduct of human life, must have been laid down and approved of by common consent.