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The aim was to build a mandate powerful enough to take on the interests that would defend the status quo.

The only way a President could even hope to have a mandate powerful enough to take on the most powerful interests in Washington was if his or her whole election was tied to achieving that reform.

But I would serve as president in a very specific way -- a way designed to produce a mandate powerful enough to make change actually plausible.

Yet while every major candidate in the Democratic Primary has acknowledged this truth, none of them have waged a campaign that would produce a mandate powerful enough to fix it.

What makes that mandate particularly powerful is the president's relationship with the 1 percent during the 2012 election campaign.

Presidents had, in a manner of speaking, discovered a second mandate, more powerful than the popular one, under which to act.

The latter course is riskier but its consequences can be more enduring and its mandate more powerful, as both Lyndon Johnson and Ronald Reagan demonstrated.

But his attack on the Obama administration's HHS contraceptive mandate was powerful, and his attempt to rally evangelicals behind a Mormon and a Catholic was sincere.

In the eyes of Isis, the reference to the town in Islamic teachings gives the group's rampage an incontestable mandate – a powerful thing to table when you're trying to impose a new world order.

Mandates can be powerful symbols in American politics.

"In Judaism there is a profound and powerful mandate for caring for the Earth.