Whether he wields his mandate in pursuit of democracy, as he claims, or a new autocracy, as his critics fear, is an open question.
That would give Mr Morales, a socialist and cocaworkers' leader of Aymaran Indian descent, the clearest mandate of any president since democracy was restored to this country of 9m in the early 1980s.
Jessica Montell, the executive director of B'Tselem, an Israeli group that monitors human rights in the occupied territories, said that even if Israel had "legitimate concerns about Professor Falk's mandate," barring his entry was "an act unbefitting of democracy".
Israel, as one of the few democracies in a region of continuing despotism and religious violence, has both a mandate and an opportunity to demonstrate the vitality of democracy with its embrace of raucous religious freedom.
The Federal Reserve was designed to be insulated from the full force of democracy in order to protect its mandate from political opportunism, to ensure that policy hewed to technical expertise.
He urged an end to "expensive and sometimes thoughtless" federal mandates, saying the states were "supposed to be laboratories of democracy, not guinea pigs for failed federal experiments".
If Quigley wants the law to mandate Trump's tweets are forever recorded in the scrapbook of democracy, he'll have to keep up this congressional battle.
I might even accept the view that our domestic struggles with lack of accountability and transparency, directly related to the absence of democracy, may simply not fall within your mandate.
It is this mandate that ought to be respected and tolerated in the spirit of democracy and common decency.
His ruling Fidesz party secured more than two-thirds of the seats in parliament, a decisive mandate that many observers consider an ominous sign for the future of democracy in Hungary — and even the rest of Europe.
